Mathematics: The Prodigy Who Grew Up
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Traveling restlessly, Wiener lectured in Paris in French, in Germany in German, in Mexico City in Spanish; he regretted that international politics prevented him from giving "any more lectures in China in Chinese. He could not bring himself to slow down. He was 69 when he died, still preaching his gospel for the age of cybernetics: "Render unto man the things that are man's, and unto the computer only the things that are the computer's."
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