Cybernetics
by Wiener, Norbert
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Madison, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Boston: MIT Press, 1961. 212pp. Red cloth boards, black titles on spine and front board. Binding tight, spine straight, corners solid. Pages clean and unmarked. Black dust jacket is intact, not price clipped, with mild wear to spine ends and edges. Second edition of Wiener's treatise on Cybernetics, which " laid the theoretical foundation for servomechanisms (whether electrical, mechanical or hydraulic), automatic navigation, analog computing, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and reliable communications.". Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
Synopsis
Second Edition
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033066
- Title
- Cybernetics
- Author
- Wiener, Norbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics, MIT Press, Complex Systems
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About the Seller
The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
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Madison, New Jersey
About The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.