Mina
Day 5
First non fiction in my list.
Norbert Wiener: Mathematik - Mein Leben (original title: I am a Mathematician)
I don't think, it's possible to overstate the influence, this book had on my life.
When I got it from my grandpa, I thought "This looks boring, and who is this guy, anyway?",
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Oh, my. I can see that. 😉 Impressive.
How old were you when you got it?
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Ah OK. I had begun to think that you were a wunderkind, Mina.
I (partially )read an astrophysics book from college at that age (the US ones used to have less mathematics in them 😉.) Alas, it was lent to me, so IDK which one anymore.
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I guess, around 14/15 when I got it. Read it with 17.
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so it first went directly to the shelf, until one day, I felt the strong urge to procrastinate, grabbed it and started to read.
It turned out to be a well written autobiography. Wiener tells his life from being recognised as a "prodigy child" in a Jewish family in the early 20th century in the US, to becoming the "Father of Cybernetics"
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(he coined the term), the science of communication and steering in machines and animals.
He describes his involvement in scientific research in both world wars, despite his strong pacificism, and his activism for "free science" across borders afterwards, which brought him into some trouble in the McCarthy era.
However: He described his actual work with so
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much passion, that I owe him to a great deal my own love for mathematics and my choice for this subject as my major in university.
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A live letter to Wiener... 🥰
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A love letter to Wiener... 🥰
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Not to the sausages I hope...
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Kind of
And an invitation to everyone to not judge a book by its (probably for most people) intimidating cover.
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Lol, was kinda waiting for that.
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What else should come up with such a name? Nürnberger, Regensburger, Frankfurter - always the same coincidence. The authorities in the medievals in central Europe made their lifes pretty easy naming many jewish people after the locations where the lived.
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