Stanislaw Ulam called him a "true eccentric," and he had a remarkable ability to fall asleep during someone's lecture, snoring loudly, then suddenly wake up and ask a relevant question.
Stanislaw Ulam called him a "true eccentric," and he had a remarkable ability to fall asleep during someone's lecture, snoring loudly, then suddenly wake up and ask a relevant question. Hardy introduced him to Lebesque integrals, and Russell introduced him to Brownian motion; in the 1920s, he combined the two and developed many underlying principles of stochastic analysis. He applied statistical theory to the anti-aircraft fire problem in World War II, possibly leading to his consideration of communication and regulatory feedback in human beings, the subject of his most famous works. FTP, name this author of The Human Use of Human Beings and Cybernetics.
Stanislaw Ulam called him a "true eccentric," and he had a remarkable ability to fall asleep during someone's lecture, snoring loudly, then suddenly wake up and ask a relevant question.
Norbert Wiener