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John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death

Steve J. Heims

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John Von Neumann and Norbert Weiner: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death by Steve Heims (1982) Out of print but libraries have it. Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Weiner, the Father of Cybernetics by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman (2005) Weiner himself wrote some autobiographies, including Child Prodigy and I Am A Mathematician.