

Hardy at Cambridge University, and by David Hilbert and Edmund Landau at the University of Göttingen. In 1914, Wiener traveled to Europe, to study under Bertrand Russell and G. from Harvard at the age of 18 with a dissertation on mathematical logic supervised by Karl Schmidt.

In 1910 he transferred to Cornell to study philosophy and back to Harvard, where he was strongly influenced by the fine teaching of Edward Huntington on mathematical philosophy. He was awarded a BA in mathematics in 1909 at the age of 14, whereupon he began graduate studies of zoology at Harvard. After graduating from Ayer High School in 1906 at 11 years of age, Wiener entered Tufts College. Norbert Wiener became a famous child prodigy, who was educated by his father Leo at home. Wiener was born in Columbia, Missouri, USA, the first child of Leo Wiener, a professor for slavic languages at Harvard, and Bertha Kahn, both Jews of Polish and German origin, respectively. – Norbert Wiener, as quoted in Comic Sections (1993) by D MacHale A Child Prodigy One of the chief duties of a mathematician in acting as an advisor to scientists is to discourage them from expecting too much of mathematicians.” “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 attained international renown by formulating some of the most important contributions to mathematics in the 20th century. Wiener established the science of cybernetics, a term he coined, which is concerned with the common factors of control and communication in living organisms, automatic machines, and organizations. On November 26, 1894, American mathematician Norbert Wiener was born.
