Call number:
PIK M 900-11-0283
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents: 1. Wiener's youth: his father's image ; 2. Von Neumann's youth: mathematical reasoning power as amulet ; 3. The measure of an extremely lively and wholly haphazard motion ; 4. The rational poker player ; 5. Axioms and atoms ; 6. Scientific style and habits of work ; 7. The foundation: chaos or logic? ; 8. The normal life of mathematics professors ; 9. The Watershed ; 10. A mutual interest, but... ; 11. Von Neumann and the arms race: technical adviser in the corridors of power ; 12. Political power, human nature, and society ; 13. Wiener, the independent intellectual: technology as applied moral and social philosophy ; 14. Von Neumann: only human, in spite of himself ; 15. Wiener's later years: again the golem
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
XVIII, 547 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.
Edition:
2. print.
ISBN:
0262081059
Location:
A 18 - must be ordered
Branch Library:
PIK Library
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