norbert wiener

• prof. wiener derse girdigi gibi simultane bir sekilde iki eliyle birden tahtaya yazi yazar ve yazdiklarindan bagimsiz bir sekilde de baska bir konuyu anlatirmis. ders bittiginde 4 tahta agzina kadar dolu olurmus ve sozlu anlattigi seylerle tahtaya yazdiklari simultane seyler olmuyormus. dersini alan phd ogrencileri ders bittikten sonra 1 saat boyunca kafa kafaya verip o anlattigi hangi formulle eslesiyor diye notlari temize cekerlermis.
  
  bunu wiener'in ogrencisiyle, phd'sini yazmis hocamdan duydum. o da kendi hocasindan duymus. eger dogruysa meh diyorum.
  
  insanlarin kendisiyle ilgili anilarini da buraya ekleyeyim.
  
  one day he was sitting in the campus lounge, intensely studying a paper on the table. several times he'd get up, pace a bit, then return to the paper. everyone was impressed by the enormous mental effort reflected on his face. once again he rose from his paper, took some rapid steps around the room, and collided with a student. the student said, "good afternoon, professor wiener." wiener stopped, stared, clapped a hand to his forehead, said "wiener - that's the word," and ran back to the table to fill the word "wiener" in the crossword puzzle he was working on.
  
  he drove 150 miles to a math conference at yale university. when the conference was over, he forgot he came by car, so he returned home by bus. the next morning, he went out to his garage to get his car, discovered it was missing, and complained the police that while he was away, someone stole his car.
  
  phyllis l. block, graduate administrator in the department of mathematics (mıt) recalls: "his (wiener's) office was a few doors down the hall from mine. he often visited my office to talk to me. when my office was moved after a few years, he came in to introduce himself. he didn't realize ı was the same person he had frequently visited [before]; ı was in a new office so he thought ı was someone else".
  
  robert k. weatherall, vice president for alumni and director of the office of career services and pre-professional advising, related another wiener story told to him by an mıt alumnus who "was driving in new hampshire and stopped to help a tubby-looking man with a flat tire.
  he recognized norbert wiener and asked if he could help. wiener asked if [the alumnus] knew him. yes, he said, he had taken calculus with him. did you pass?' asked wiener.yes.' `then you can help me,' said wiener".