He gained a large degree of fame for developing a rigorous mathematical explanation of Brownian motion, but he is most famous for the discipline he founded that studies statistical methods of control in communications.  
His father raised him to believe that Africans discovered America around 1000 CE.  The recipient of the 1933 B?her Prize for his work on Tauberian theorems, this mathematician went on to codiscover the theory of the stationary time series with Kolmogorov.  He gained a large degree of fame for developing a rigorous mathematical explanation of Brownian motion, but he is most famous for the discipline he founded that studies statistical methods of control in communications.  FTP, identify this American mathematician and founder of cybernetics.
His father raised him to believe that Africans discovered America around 1000 CE.  
Norbert Wiener