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394422 1 En Bookbackmatter 253..307 Bibliography Norbert Wiener’s Complete Chronological Bibliography Reproduced below, with very slight changes, is the “Bibliography of Norbert Wiener” published for the first time in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 72 (1966), 135–145, special issue dedicated to Wiener after his death. It was published again in the four volumes of CW, in Masani (1990, 377–390), and in the Proceedings of the symposium (Mandrekar and Masani 1997, 543–556). The indefatigable editor of the CW, Pesi R. Masani, has indexed using a code comprising the last two digits of the year of publication and a letter of the alphabet for titles that refer to the same year. This coding can now be considered as the official standard to correctly and unambiguously identify Wiener’s many publica- tions, and it is in some cases imperative because it has been used in the comments in CW to accompany Wiener’s writings (e.g., E. Nagel, Comments on [14c], [14d]. In [CW4, 67], or McMillan B. and Deem, G.S. The Wiener program in statistical physics. Commentary on [38a], [39b and h], [40d], [43a], in (CW1, 654–671). It would have been possible to include only those of Wiener’s works explicitly mentioned in the text of this book, but it seemed more appropriate to offer his entire bibliography, because I believe that isolating his philosophical, sociological, or cybernetic works from the others, as well as being a difficult task, would make it harder to follow his intellectual itinerary. When the document was published in CW. I even added the pagination of CW to that of the original edition. To keep account of the actual year of publication I had to change the labels in several cases, noting this each time. [CW] Wiener, N. 1976–1985. Collected works. With commentaries, 4 vv, ed. Pesi Rustom Masani. Cambridge [MA]: The MIT Press. [CW1] v. 1. Mathematical philosophy and foundations; potential theory; Brownian movement, Wiener integrals, ergodic and chaos theories, tur- bulence and statistical mechanics, 1976. © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 253 L. Montagnini, Harmonies of Disorder, Springer Biographies, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-50657-9 254 Bibliography [CW2] v. 2. Generalized harmonic analysis and Tauberian theory, classical har- monic and complex analysis, 1979. [CW3] v. 3. The Hopf-Wiener integral equation; prediction and filtering; quantum mechanics and relativity; miscellaneous mathematical papers, 1981. [CW4] v. 4. Cybernetics, science, and society; ethics, aesthetics, and literary criticism; book reviews and obituaries, 1985. Note that [CW] brings together almost all Wiener’s publications, apart from works published in volume form. [13a] On a method of rearranging the positive integers in a series of ordinal numbers greater than that of any given fundamental sequence of omegas. Messenger of Mathematics 43: 97–105. [CW1], 240–248. [13b] A comparison between the treatment of the algebra of relatives by Schröder and that by Whitehead and Russell. PhD thesis, Philosophy Department, Harvard University, Cambridge [MA]. [14a] A simplification of the logic of relations. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 17: 387–390. [CW1], 29–32. [14b] A contribution to the theory of relative position. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 17: 441–449. [CW1], 34–42. [14c] The highest good. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Method 11: 512–520. [CW4], 41–49. [14d] Relativism. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Method 11: 561–577. [CW4], 50–66. [15a] Studies in synthetic logic. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 18: 24–28. [CW1], 43–57. [15b] Is mathematical certainty absolute? Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Method 12: 568–574. [CW1], 218–224. [16a] Mr. Lewis and implication. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Method 13: 656–662. [CW1], 226–232. [16b] The shortest line dividing an area in a given ratio. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Method 9: 56–58. [CW3], 633–635. [16c] Review of: Keyser, C.J., Science and religion. The rational and the superrational. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Method 13: 273–277. [CW4], 990–994. [16d] Review of: Robb, A.A., A theory of time and space. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Method 13: 611–613. [CW4], 973–975. [17a] Certain formal invariances in Boolean algebras. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 18: 65–72. [CW1], 321–328. [17b] Review of: Keyser, C.J., The human worth of rigorous thinking. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Method 14: 356–361. [CW4], 984–989. [18a] Review of: Huntington, E.V., The continuum and other types of serial order. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Method 15: 78–80. [CW4], 976–978. Bibliography 255 [18b] Æsthetics. Encyclopedia Americana, ed 1918–1920. 1: 198–203. [CW4], 845–850. [18c] Algebra. Definitions and fundamental concepts. Encyclopedia Americana, ed 1918–1920. 1: 381–385. [CW3], 636–640. [18d] Alphabet. Encyclopedia Americana, ed 1918–1920. 1: 435–438. [CW4], 933–936. [18e] Animals, chemical sense in. Encyclopedia Americana, ed 1918–1920. 1: 704. [CW4], 970. [18f] Apperception. Encyclopedia Americana, ed 1918–1920. 2: 82–83. [CW4], 951–952. [18g] Category. Encyclopedia Americana, ed 1918–1920. 6: 49. [CW4], 944. [18h] Dualism. Encyclopedia Americana,ed1918–1920. 9: 367. [CW4], 943. [18i] Duty. Encyclopedia Americana, ed 1918–1920. 9: 440–441. [CW4], 955–956. [18j] Ecstasy. Encyclopedia Americana, ed 1918–1920. 9: 570. [CW4], 953. [19a] Geometry, non-Euclidean. Encyclopedia Americana, ed 1918–1920. 12: 463–467. [CW3], 641–645. [19b] Induction. logic. Encyclopedia Americana, ed 1918–1920. 15: 70–73. [CW4], 964–967. [19c] Infinity. Encyclopedia Americana, ed 1918–1920. 15: 120–122. [CW4], 961–963. [19d] Meaning. Encyclopedia Americana, ed 1918–1920. 18: 478–479. [CW4], 959–960. [19e] Mechanism and vitalism. Encyclopedia Americana,ed1918–1920. 18: 527–528. [CW4], 968–969. [19f] Metaphysics. Encyclopedia Americana, ed 1918–1920. 18: 707–710. [CW4], 937–940. [19g] Pessimism. Encyclopedia Americana, ed 1918–1920. 21: 654. [CW4], 954. [19h] Postulates. Encyclopedia Americana, ed 1918–1920. 22: 437–438. [CW4], 957–958. [20a] Bilinear operations generating all operations rational in a domain X. Annals of Mathematics 21 (1920): 157–165. [CW1], 250–258. [20b] A set of postulates for fields. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 21: 237–246. [CW1], 259–267. [20c] Certain iterative characteristics of bilinear operations. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 27: 6–10. [CW1], 269–273. [20d] see [21f]. [20e] see [21g]. [20f] The mean of a functional of arbitrary elements. 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[22b] The group of linear continuum. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 20: 329–346. [CW1], 285–302. [22c] Limit in terms of continuous transformation. Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France 50: 119–134. [CW1], 303–318. [22d] (with Walsh, J.L.) The equivalence of expansions in terms of orthogonal functions. Journal of Mathematics and Physics 1: 103–122. [CW2], 813–832. [22e] A new type of integral expansion. Journal of Mathematics and Physics 1: 167–176. [CW3], 666–675. [23a] On the nature of mathematical thinking. Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy 1: 268–272. [CW1], 234–238. [23b] (with Phillips, H.B.) Nets and the Dirichlet problem. Journal of Mathematics and Physics 2: 105–124. [CW1], 333–352. [23c] Discontinuous boundary conditions and the Dirichlet problem. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 25: 307–314. [CW1], 355–362. Bibliography 257 [23d] Differential space. Journal of Mathematics and Physics 2: 131–174. [CW1], 455–498. 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