Norbert Wiener

American mathematician and philosopher (1894–1964), the founder of cybernetics, the study of control, feedback, and communication in living organisms and machines.

Wiener's Cybernetics (1948) gave a common language to feedback and self-regulation across biology, engineering, and society, seeding the systems-science culture of the mid-twentieth century.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: influence on Fuller. Cybernetics is part of the systems-thinking milieu that shaped R. Buckminster Fuller's whole-systems, feedback-aware conception of design science and of Earth as a self-regulating "Spaceship." Wiener sits alongside general-systems theory as one of the intellectual currents Fuller's synergetics runs parallel to; his ideas also circulate through the corpus's counterculture-cybernetics material.

See Also

• Ludwig von Bertalanffy — co-founder of the systems-science current alongside cybernetics

Sources

• Compiled from general knowledge and corpus mentions; no single work anchors this figure.