High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894, Columbia, Missouri March 18, 1964, Stockholm, Sweden) was an American pure and applied mathematician. A famous child prodigy, Wiener went on to become a pioneer in the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems. Wiener is the founder of cybernetics, a field that formalizes the notion of feedback, with many implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, philosophy, and the organization of society.