Proceedings of the Norbert Wiener Centenary Congress, 1994

The congress was called to demonstrate the current impact and extension of Wiener's pioneering work during the first three decades of the century in such areas as physics, stochastics, harmonic analysis, philosophy, prosthesis, and cybernetics. The 26 scientific papers discuss Wiener's concept of the stochastic universe, potential and capacity before and after him, generalized harmonic analysis and its ramifications, quantum mechanical ramifications, his relationship to Leibniz and Haldane on questions of the mind, Shannon-Wiener information and stochastic complexity, nonlinear stochastic analysis, ontogenetic and phylogenetic prosthesis, the political economy, and cybernetics. Also included are awards, tributes, and letters. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.