Cibernética, o control y comunicación en los animales y la maquina
NORBERT WIENER (1894 - 1964)
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all
he son of a somewhat eccentric professor of Slavic languages and literature who was bent on rearing a genius, American mathematician Norbert Wiener’s inherent brilliance set him on an intellectual path at an early age. Although his upbringing backfired to a certain degree, leaving him always somewhat skeptical of his abilities, Wiener’s work in mathematical theories would lead him to the founding of a new discipline - cybernetics, or the study of control and communication in animals and machines.
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Las bases de la cibernetica
"At this point there enters an element which occurs repeatedly in the history of cybernetics -- the influence of mathematical logic. If I were to choose a patron saint for cybernetics out of the history of science, I should have to choose Leibniz. The philosophy of Leibniz centers about two closely related concepts -- that of a universal symbolism and that of a calculus of reasoning. From these are descended the mathematical notation and the symbolic logic of the present day." From Cybernetics