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A comment on Ask HN: Favourite science history book of the 20th century?.

Re:Ask HN: Favourite science history book of the 20th century? by jonjacky on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @11:06AM (#48993248)
John Von Neumann and Norbert Weiner: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death by Steve Heims (1982) Out of print but libraries have it.

Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Weiner, the Father of Cybernetics by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman (2005)

Weiner himself wrote some autobiographies, including Child Prodigy and I Am A Mathematician.

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Re:Ask HN: Favourite science history book of the 20th century? by pmdulaney on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:03PM (#48995869)
I believe Weiner's first volume was Ex-Prodigy. I love his story of how his dad liked to pick wild mushrooms for dinner and how he (Norbert) was never sure if he was going to wake up in the morning!
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