Norbert Wiener (* November 26th, 1894 in Columbia, Missouri) is a US-American Mathematician and Philosopher.
His father was Professor for Slavic languages at Harvard University. The Son was mostly raised at Home and considered a „Wunderkind“, because he displayed his interest very early, especially about foreign languages. In September 1906, at the age of 11 years, he joined Tufts College, to study Mathematics. He got his degree in 1909 and joined Harvard. There, he studied Zoology, but in 1910, he changed to Cornell University, to study Philosophy. Then he returned to Harvard and finished his thesis about mathematical Logic in 1912. From Harvard, he changed to Cambridge, England, to continue his studies under Bertrand Russell and Godfrey Harold Hardy. In 1914, he was in Göttingen at David Hilbert and Edmund Landau. Then, he returned to Cambridge and afterwards to the USA. 1915 to 1916, he taught Philosophy in Harvard. Since 1919, he became at William Fogg Osgood's recommendation Instructor at MIT, at which he also became Assistant Professor in 1924, Associate Professor in 1929, and Professor in 1932.
In 1926, he married Margaret Engemann.
