![]() ![]() Neither the artist nor the mathematician may be able to tell you what constitutes the difference between a significant piece of work and an inflated trifle but if he is not able to recognise this in his own heart, he is no artist and no mathematician. Wieners research, which was frequently motivated by physics, engineering, or biology, was a clever mixture of Fourier analysis and probability theory. ![]() Bound up with it is a judgement of values, quite parallel to the judgement of values that belongs to the painter or the musician. /rebates/2fbook-search2ftitle2fmathematician2fauthor2fwiener-norbert2ffirst-edition2f&. He cultivated philosophical studies at the highest level, with the finest philosophers of the day. ![]() No amount of technical correctness and no amount of labour can replace this creative moment, whether in the life of a mathematician or of a painter or musician. Norbert Wiener (18941964) had a brilliant school career: he earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics when he was just 14 years old, his master’s at 17, and his doctorate at 18, both of the last two at Harvard, in philosophy. To see meaning and understanding come where there has been no meaning and no understanding is to share the work of a demiurge. To see a difficult uncompromising material take living shape and meaning is to be Pygmalion, whether the material is stone or hard, stonelike logic. These rewards are of exactly the same character as those of the artist. Mathematics is too arduous and uninviting a field to appeal to those to whom it does not give great rewards. ![]()
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