Norbert Wiener Quiz

Norbert Wiener, American mathematician (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Norbert Wiener Quiz Questions

1. When was Norbert Wiener born?
a) 1 January 1900
b) 7 April 1898
c) 5 August 1896
d) 26 November 1894

2. Where was Norbert Wiener born?
a) Columbia
b) Medford
c) Aberdeen
d) Gottingen

3. Which college did Norbert Wiener attend?
a) Bright College
b) Pembroke College
c) Tufts College
d) St. Albert’s College

4. Under whom did Norbert Wiener study mathematical logic at Cambridge?
a) Leonhard Euler
b) Bertrand Russell
c) James Franck
d) Hermann Minkowski

5. When did Norbert Wiener join Massachusetts Institute of Technology?
a) 1919
b) 1914
c) 1902
d) 1908

6. When did Norbert Wiener publish Cybernetics?
a) 1945
b) 1948
c) 1942
d) 1036

7. Which book of Norbert Wiener was published in 1956?
a) Ex-Prodigy
b) The Human Use of Human Beings
c) God and Golem, Inc
d) I Am a Mathematician

8. Which of the following medals did Norbert Wiener receive in 1956?
a) Congressional Medal of Freedom
b) International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics
c) National Medal of Science
d) Medal for Merit

9. When did Norbert Wiener die?
a) 18 March 1964
b) 14 June 1968
c) 12 July 1977
d) 20 December 1985

10. Where did Norbert Wiener die?
a) Berlin
b) Boston
c) Stockholm
d) Winchester

Norbert Wiener Quiz Questions with Answers

An early view of Tufts College from 1853. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

1. When was Norbert Wiener born?
d) 26 November 1894

2. Where was Norbert Wiener born?
a) Columbia

3. Which college did Norbert Wiener attend?
c) Tufts College

4. Under whom did Norbert Wiener study mathematical logic at Cambridge?
b) Bertrand Russell

A single sample path of a three-dimensional Brownian motion (Wiener process) W t , as generated by Wolfram Mathematica with a time step of size 0.0001, for times 0 ? t ? 2. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

5. When did Norbert Wiener join Massachusetts Institute of Technology?
a) 1919

6. When did Norbert Wiener publish Cybernetics?
b) 1948

7. Which book of Norbert Wiener was published in 1956?
d) I Am a Mathematician

8. Which of the following medals did Norbert Wiener receive in 1956?
c) National Medal of Science

9. When did Norbert Wiener die?
a) 18 March 1964

10. Where did Norbert Wiener die?
c) Stockholm

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