Proceedings of the Norbert Wiener Centenary Congress, 1994 : Michigan State University, November 27-December 3, 1994 / V. Mandrekar, P. R. Masani, editors ; organizing committee, J. Benedetto [and seven others] ; local organizers, Raoul LePage and V. Mandrekar.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Norbert Wiener Centenary Congress, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Mandrekar, V., editor, organizer of meeting.

Masani, P. R., editor.

Benedetto, J., organizer of meeting.

LePage, Raoul, organizer of meeting.

American Mathematical Society. Short Course, organizer of meeting, sponsor.

International Association of Cybernetics, sponsor.

World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics, sponsor.

Conference Name:

Norbert Wiener Centenary Congress (1994 : Michigan State University)

Norbert Wiener Centenary Congress

Series:

Proceedings of symposia in applied mathematics ; Volume 52.

Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics ; Volume 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stochastic analysis--Congresses.

Stochastic analysis.

Fourier analysis--Congresses.

Fourier analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (617 p.)

Place of Publication:

Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A mathematician on par with the greatest in the century, Norbert Wiener was a universal thinker of colossal proportions. This book contains the proceedings of the Norbert Wiener Centenary Congress held at Michigan State University on November 27-December 2, 1994. The aim of the Congress was to reveal the depth and strong coherence of thought that runs through Wiener's legacy, and to exhibit its continuation in on-going research. This volume brings together the great minds who have furthered Wiener's ideas in physics, stochastics, harmonic analysis, philosophy, prosthesis and cybernetics. The presentations coherently lay out the developments of the subjects from their inception. This volume provides an excellent pathway for new investigators who may wish to pursue these developments by following the footsteps of world experts. There is no other book available in which experts in the various fields in which Wiener worked have presented his thoughts and contributions insuch a coherent and lucid manner.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Norbert Wiener Centenary Congress: Sponsors, organizing committee and supporters""; ""List of contributors""; ""Preface: Overview of the Norbert Wiener Centenary Congress and Acknowledgment""; ""Program""; ""I. Wiener's Concept of the Stochastic Universe""; ""Wiener-Kolmogorov conception of the stochastic organization of nature""; ""The Wiener programme in statistical physics: Is it feasible in the light of recent developments?""; ""The mathematical ramifications of Wiener's program in statistical physics""; ""II. Potential and Capacity Before and After Wiener""

""Potential and capacity before and after Wiener""""III. Generalized Harmonic Analysis and Its Ramifications""; ""Generalized harmonic analysis and Gabor and wavelet systems""; ""Wiener-Hopf equations and linear systems""; ""Complex harmonic analysis in the aftermath of Paley-Wiener""; ""Amalgam spaces and generalized harmonic analysis""; ""IV. Quantum Mechanical Ramifications of Wiener's Ideas""; ""Wiener space and nonlinear quantum field theory""; ""Wiener and Feynman�path integrals and their applications""; ""Optical coherence before and after Wiener""

""Wiener and the problem of ""Hidden Parameters"" in quantum mechanics""""Finite path integrals""; ""Joint probabilities of noncommuting observables and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen question in Wiener-Siegel quantum theory""; ""V. Leibniz, Haldane and Wiener on Mind""; ""The role of Leibniz and Haldane in Wiener's cybernetics""; ""Quantum mechanical coherence, resonance, and mind""; ""What is mind that the brain may order it?""; ""VI. Shannon-Wiener Information and Stochastic Complexity""; ""Shannon-Wiener information and stochastic complexity""; ""VII. Nonlinear Stochastic Analysis""

""Sharp norm comparison of Martingale maximal functions and stochastic integrals""""Stochastic analysis on Wiener space""; ""Stochastic filtering: A part of stochastic nonlinear analysis""; ""The theory of learning before and after Wiener""; ""VIII. Prosthesis, Ontogenetic and Phylogenetic""; ""Sensory and motor prostheses in the aftermath of Wiener""; ""On Wiener's thought in the computer as an aid in visualizing higher-dimensional forms and its modern ramifications""; ""IX. Wiener and the Political Economy: Automatization, Educational Decline and Unemployment (Round Table)""

""X. Cybernetics""""Norbert Wiener and the future of cybernetics""; ""Letter to Norbert Wiener from John von Neumann""; ""XI. Award of Norbert Wiener Centenary Medal""; ""Scientific impact of the work of C. E. Shannon""; ""Citation and award of the Norbert Wiener Centenary Medal to Professor C. E. Shannon (in absentia)""; ""Photograph: Presentation of medal to Mrs. C. E. Shannon by Jean Ramaekers, President of the International Association of Cybernetics""; ""XII. A Tribute to Wiener from Dennis Gabor, F.R.S., N.L""; ""Wiener and the art of communication""; ""Academic vita of Norbert Wiener""

""Doctoral students of Norbert Wiener""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8218-9267-3