1 Prologue -- 2 Count Tolstoy and Wienerโs Father -- 3 New England and Wienerโs Early Training, 1901-1905 -- 4 Harvard and Wienerโs University Training, 1906-1913 -- 5 Bertrand Russell and Wienerโs Postdoctoral Years, 1914-1917 -- 6 World War I and Wienerโs Military Yearnings -- 7 From Postulate Systems to the Brownian Motion and Potential Theory -- 8 The Allotment of National Income, Marriage, and Wienerโs Academic Career -- 9 From Communications Engineering to Generalized Harmonic Analysis and Tauberian Theory -- 10 Max Born and Wienerโs Thoughts on Quantum Mechanics and Unified Field Theory -- 11 The Collaboration with E. Hopf and R.E.A.C. Paley -- 12 Birkhoffโs Theorem and the Consolidation of Wienerโs Ideas on Statistical Physics -- 13 Lee, Bush, and Wienerโs Thoughts on Networks and Computers -- 14 Bigelow and Anti-Aircraft Fire Control, 1940-1945 -- 15 Arturo Rosenblueth and Wienerโs Work in Physiology -- 16 McCulloch, Pitts and the Evolution of Wienerโs Neurophysiological Ideas -- 17 The Cybernetical Movement and von Neumannโs Letter, 1946 -- 18 Cybernetics -- 19 The Second Industrial Revolution and its Educational, Economic and Social Challenges -- 20 Wiener on Global Policy and Military Science; von Neumannโs Position; Science and Human Welfare -- 21 Wienerโs Excursion into the Religious Domain -- 22 Wienerโs Literary Predilections and Initiatives. His Concept of Art -- 23 Wiener, the Man and the Teacher: Authenticity and Prejudice in his Attitudes and Writings -- 24 Epilogue -- Academic Vita of Norbert Wiener -- Doctoral Students of Norbert Wiener -- The Classification of Wienerโs Papers -- Bibliography of Norbert Wiener -- Defense Department Documents -- References -- Name Index -- Photograph Index and Credits

1. Mathematics
2. History
3. Mathematics
4. History of Mathematical Sciences