it's actually i wish we had more time to read about some of norbert wieners peculiarities because they are really something but what you know, he's talking as a 12 year about the greater things you want. what were the greater things? where did norbert weiner go with his life with that brilliance? he got his doctorate in his post doctorate work at. various team universities as postdoc was with bertram russell and john dewey. he was just a genius that not only mathematics but the logic of mathematics and it was a time when computers were being developed. at a time when the computer was a person with a slide rule and a pencil. literally, that was what they were called. he was put into the war effort in 1940 41. in order to deal with the luftwaffe, which was raining terror over britain at the time and which was much higher and faster than anybody knew before the war started. um, he was famous for work in brownian motion, which i go into but he was really interested in the fact and he came to this through his wartime work that you could put people and and mechanical things including electri

i wish we had more time to read about norbert wiener's peculiarities because they are really something. he is talking as a 12-year-old about the greater things. what are the greater things? where did he go in his life with that brilliance. >> he got his doctorate and post doctorate work. he was just a genius at not just mathematics, but the logic of mathematics. it was at a time when computers were being developed. at a time when a computer was a person with a slide rule and a pencil. literally that's what they were called. he was put into the war effort in 1940, '41, in order to deal with a lustoff he was interested if the fact -- and he came to this true his wartime work -- that you could put people and mechanical things egg including electromechanical things in a single task. so he conceived of anti-aircraft as the combination of people on the ground, the gunner, et cetera, and a circle of causality between the airplane in the sky, the speed of the airplane, the maneuvers of the airplane, the ability of the pilot to do evasive maneuvers. and a round circle of information, which was,