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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HistoPol (#HP)
in reply to Mina • • •Oh, my. I can see that. 😉 Impressive.
How old were you when you got it?
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Mina
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) • • •I guess, around 14/15 when I got it. Read it with 17.
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HistoPol (#HP)
in reply to Mina • • •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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Mina
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) • • •I was definitely no Wunderkind (prodigy child).
I am far better at pretending to be smart than at actually being it.
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Mina
in reply to Mina • • •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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Mina
in reply to Mina • • •(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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Mina
in reply to Mina • • •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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HistoPol (#HP)
in reply to Mina • • •A love letter to Wiener... 🥰
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Mina
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) • • •Kind of
And an invitation to everyone to not judge a book by its (probably for most people) intimidating cover.
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Thomas Blechschmidt
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) • • •HistoPol (#HP)
in reply to Thomas Blechschmidt • • •Lol, was kinda waiting for that.
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in reply to Mina • • •Sascha Niedrig
in reply to Mina • • •#20Books20Days - The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #books #BookWyrm @mina
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