March 21, 2005
Before the Physics Geek...
...there was the original computer geek. Interesting story about a guy that I was only dimly aware of.
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I knew something about Wiener's work. We covered the application of information theory to thermodynamics in a Stat Mech course. Looked at that way, things like increasing entropy become inevitable. Well, they always were, of course, but you can see why they're inevitable.
But I didn't know about his manic-depression, or that wife of his. It's like the dark side of "A Beautiful Mind," isn't it?
Posted by: Bob Hawkins at March 22, 2005 08:50 PM (2LKPp)
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