1894: Norbert Wiener is born in Columbia, Missouri. A child prodigy, he goes on to become one of the 20th century's most famous mathematicians and the founder of the discipline of cybernetics, the ...

Largely forgotten today, Norbert Wiener’s science of “cybernetics”—the study of organisms and machines as mutually compatible feedback systems—captivated scholars and the public alike from the late ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctv16f6d9c.3 You could say that I found Gaia by way of chaos theory. In my part of academe, chaos theory arrived in 1987.¹ By ...