Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas
 First edition cover | |
| Author | Norbert Wiener |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Invention |
| Publisher | MIT Press |
Publication date | 1993 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 186 |
| ISBN | 0-262-73111-8 |
| 303.48 | |
| LC Class | T15 .W65 |
Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas is a 1993 book by the computer scientist, mathematician and philosopher Norbert Wiener.[1]
Invention was written in 1954 but Wiener abandoned the project at the editing stage and returned his advance. MIT Press published it posthumously in 1993, with an introduction by Steve Joshua Heims.[2]
Summary
[edit]Invention covers the history of discovery and invention, emphasizing the circumstances that foster innovation. Wiener writes about how the intellectual and technological environment must be correct for an idea to blossom.[3]
Reception
[edit]In 2006, Invention was part of a shortlist of 23 books chosen by the Royal Institution for the title of best science book ever.[4][5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ Wiener, N. (1994). Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas. United Kingdom: Penguin Random House LLC.
- ^ "Learning, invention, greatness". Gardner Writes. July 21, 2011.
- ^ "Invention". MIT Press.
- ^ Conocimiento, Ventana al (11 April 2017). "Primo Levi and the Best Science Book ever Written".
- ^ "The debate is on: the best science book ever is announced | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News.
- ^ Hagen, Margareth; Skagen, Margery Vibe (28 February 2014). Literature and Chemistry: Elective Affinities. ISD LLC. ISBN 9788771246278 – via Google Books.