Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas

by Norbert Wiener

Book Overview

Internationally honored for brilliant achievements throughout his career, author of Cybernetics, ExProdigy, and the essay God and Golem, Inc., which won the National Book Award in 1964, Norbert Wiener... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262231670
• ISBN13: 9780262231671
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A book well worth reading

It has been said that all of science is concerned with ideas of patterns and all of mathametics is concerned with patterns of ideas. This book is a wonderful combination of both concepts. Norbert Wiener's towering intellect,knowledge of the history of science and ability to develop interesting associations between diverse areas of scientific activity, which on initial consideration appear unrelated, have produced a document which is grand in scope and remarkable in accomplishment. Moreover, his style of writing is, in my opinion, quite attractive. He has many axes to grind and once they are sharpened he applies them with enormous vigor. For example, he refers to the patent as "nothing more than a ticket to litigation". There is much to be learned from this book which can readily be applied to current areas of major importance such as molecular biology and solid state physics where new discoveries and their commercial applications clearly emulate societies previous experiences with our fundamental understanding of electricity and its application to both the transfer of power and of information.