Foreword; A Baedeker for our Challenging and Troubled Times; Contents; Abbreviations for Archives; Introduction; (1894-1918); 1 Formative Years; 1.1 Family Roots; 1.2 Clay of New England; 1.3 Child Prodigy; 1.4 From Evolutionary Positivism to Pragmatism; 1.5 In the Temple of American Philosophy; 1.6 The Positivistic Idealism of Santayana; 1.7 The Idealism of Royce; 1.8 Royce's Seminar on Scientific Method; 2 The Young Philosopher of Mathematics; 2.1 The Choice of the Philosophy of Mathematics; 2.2 Bertrand Russell; 2.3 The Term Under Husserl; 2.4 Philosophy of Relativism

2.5 A Future Mathematician with a Future Poet: Wiener and Eliot2.6 Wiener's Logical Research and the "No" from Harvard; 2.7 The University of Maine; 2.8 Collaboration with the Encyclopedia Americana; (1919-1939); 3 Interwar Scientific Research; 3.1 An Unorthodox Mathematical Education; 3.2 From Harvard University to Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 3.3 Wiener's First Steps in Mathematical Research; 3.4 Wiener's New Esthetic Sense in Science; 3.5 The Influence of Peirce via Royce on Wiener's Science; 3.6 Wiener's Leibnizian Framework

3.7 Pragmatic Factors in the Fertility of Wiener's Science3.8 Researches Alongside Engineers; 3.9 Participation in Projects to Build Technical Equipments; 3.10 Research Alongside Physicists; 4 Reflections on Science and Technology; 4.1 Mathematics as a Fine Art; 4.2 The Relation with the Natural Philosophy of J.B.S. Haldane; 4.3 Arturo Rosenblueth; 4.4 John von Neumann; 4.5 "The Role of the Observer"; 4.6 "The Shattered Nerves of Europe"; 4.7 Thinking Technology: Matter and Energy; (1940-1945); 5 Wiener and the Computer. Act One; 5.1 Wiener's Principles for a High Speed Computing Machine

5.2 Wiener's Numerical Method5.3 The Choice of a Digital and High Speed Architecture; 5.4 The PDE Project Packed Away in Camphor Balls; 6 The Research Project on "Anti-aircraft Directors"; 6.1 Anti-aircraft Directors: A Strategic Project; 6.2 An Eccentric Idea; 6.3 Carrying out Research; 6.4 The First Synthesis: Inclusion of Control in Communication Engineering; 6.5 The Second Synthesis: Inclusion of Communication in Statistics; 6.6 The Role of Living Organisms in this Research; 6.7 "Behavior, Purpose, and Teleology"; 6.8 The Epilogue of the Research on A. A. Directors

6.9 The Paternity of Discoveries and Inventions7 Wiener and Computers. Act 2; 7.1 From the NDRC to the OSRD: The Time of Designers and Developers; 7.2 McCulloch and Pitts; 7.3 "A Logical Calculus" and Turing Machines; 7.4 The Collaboration Between Pitts and Wiener; 7.5 The Manhattan Project and the Los Alamos Laboratory; 7.6 Von Neumann's Search for Computing Resources; 7.7 Was Wiener Involved in Work for the Manhattan Project?; 7.8 A First Phase of Cooperation: January-July 1944; 7.9 The ENIAC Before von Neumann; 7.10 The ENIAC from von Neumann's Arrival; 7.11 Meanwhile, Wiener with Pitts, Bigelow, and von Neumann.