Full title: 'Cybernetics of Control & Communication in the Animal and the Machine'.

With the aid of Fourier-Mellin transforms as a tool in analysis, this book presents such diverse analytic questions as those of quasi-analytic functions, Mercer's theorem on summability, Milne's integral equation of radiative equilibrium, and the theorems of Munz and Szasz concerning the closure of sets of powers of an argument.

The book was written from lectures given at the University of Cambridge and maintains throughout a high level of rigour.

Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cyberneticsthe study of the relationship between computers and the human nervous systemWiener was widely misunderstood as one who advocated the automation of human life. As this book reveals, his vision was much more complex and interesting. ...