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I am a mathematician : the later life of a prodigy : an autobiographical account of the mature years and career of Norbert Wiener and a continuation of the account of his childhood in Ex-prodigy.
- Title
- I am a mathematician : the later life of a prodigy : an autobiographical account of the mature years and career of Norbert Wiener and a continuation of the account of his childhood in Ex-prodigy.
- Author
- Wiener, Norbert, 1894-1964.
- Publication
- Cambridge, MA : M.I.T. Press, 1964, c1956.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QA29.W497 A35 1964 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 380 p.; 21 cm.
- Series Statement
- M.I.T. paperback series
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- My start as a mathematician -- The International mathematical congress of 1920 at Strasbourg -- 1920-1925 : years of consolidation -- The Period of my travels abroad -- Max Born and quantum theory -- To Europe as a Guggenheim fellow with my bride -- 1927-1931 : years of growth and progress -- An Unofficial Cambridge don -- Back home : 1932-1933 -- Voices prophesying war : 1933-1935 -- China and around the world -- The War years : 1940-1945 -- Mexico : 1944 -- Moral problems of a scientist : the atomic bomb, 1942- -- Nancy, cybernetics, Paris, and after : 1946-1952 -- India : 1953 -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0262730073
- OCLC
- 5285053
- SCSB-10202567
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library