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In 1893 Wiener married Bertha Kahn. The mathematician Norbert Wiener was their son.[11] Though he
himself was a prodigy, he believed in nurture and became dedicated to turn his son into a genius. Norbert
Wiener graduated from Ayer High School in 1906 at 11 years of age, and then entered Tufts College. He
was awarded a BA in mathematics in 1909 at the age of 14, whereupon he began graduate studies of
zoology at Harvard. In 1910 he transferred to Cornell to study philosophy. He graduated in 1911 at the age
of 17.
References [ edit ]
Categories: 1862 births American people of Polish-Jewish descent Harvard University faculty
1939 deaths American historians Linguists from the United States Translators of Leo Tolstoy
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
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