NORBERT WIENER AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MATHEMATICAL ENGINEERING

So wrote Norbert Wiener in 1949, in an obituary of G. H. Hardy. Here we shall describe how one particular concrete problem in Wiener’s own work solving the Wiener-Hopf equations encountered in astrophysics - led him, and then a vast host of followers, to chart out several new areas of investigation, and to develop a very significant body of knowledge, which can well go by the name Mathematical Engineering. In the era of the PC, the Internet and the World Wide Web, few of us can be unaware that mathematical engineering has come to play a major role in the world around us. And with this has come an increasing recognition of the seminal role of Norbert Wiener’s ideas and influence in these developments.

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