The Legacy of Norbert Wiener: A Centennial Symposium

Comprises the proceedings of the October 1994 symposium held at MIT in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Norbert Wiener, a mathematician whose forays into physics, engineering, and biology changed the course of mathematical research. In addition to lectures dealing directly with problems on which Wiener worked, such as potential theory, harmonic analysis, Wiener-Hopf theory, and Palen-Wiener theory, the volume discusses Fourier integral operators with complex phase; statistical aspects of quantum mechanics and of liquid crystals; financial markets, including the new trading strategies for options based on Wiener processes; statistical methods of genetic research; and models of the nervous system, pattern recognition, and the nature of intelligence. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.