送交者: mangolasi 于 2005-7-03, 13:30:21:
A review of the new biography of Norbert Wiener, by Freeman Dyson.
Norbert Wiener is the inventor of "Wiener Measure", bread and butter of many statisticians now.
The review has a nice ending which briefs the relation of 2 ways of communication: analog and digital (the "bit" concept invented by Shannon). I never know the inventor of "Wiener Measure" has such great intellectual influence in this area.