Generalized harmonic analysis and Tauberian theory, classical harmonic and complex analysis, Vol.2

The MIT Press, 1979. — 983 p. — ISBN: 0262230925Norbert Wiener’s profound contributions encompassed not only several areas of mathematics but mathematical philosophy, relativity and quantum mechanics, communication engineering, the physiology of the heart and the nervous system, brain wave encephalography, sensory prosthesis—the field now widely known as cybernetics. His scholarly work also included incisive social, educational, and literary essays. The object of these Collected Works is not only the reproduction of all his scholarly publications other than books but the placement of the overwhelming bulk of these in the context of present- day research by means of commentaries, tracing both their genesis and aftermath, written by eminent contemporary scholars.
This volume, like the previous one and the ones to follow, owes a great deal to a great many people. I have thanked the commentators for this volume for their very valuable contributions in appropriate places in the section Introduction and Acknowledgments. But it remains to mention several other individuals and institutions without whose help this publication would have been severely handicapped.