Norbert Wiener
Mathematician who founded cybernetics, the science of control and feedback.
Their Story
Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician and a child prodigy who earned his PhD as a teenager. He founded cybernetics, the study of how machines and living things use feedback to control themselves. His ideas connected mathematics, engineering, and biology.
Era
1900s
Field
Mathematics
Norbert Wiener
Mathematician who founded cybernetics, the science of control and feedback.
Math · Mathematics · 1900s
Their Story
Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician and a child prodigy who earned his PhD as a teenager. He founded cybernetics, the study of how machines and living things use feedback to control themselves. His ideas connected mathematics, engineering, and biology.
Key Innovation
Created cybernetics, the mathematical study of feedback and control in machines and organisms.
Why It Matters Today
Self-correcting systems like thermostats, robots, and autopilots all rely on the feedback ideas he developed.
Learn More
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener
Wilkinson STEM Education Foundation · 251 American Innovators · wilkinsonstemfoundation.org
