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IKEHARA COLLECTION

IKEHARA COLLECTION

Figure 11. Wiener obituary.

Figure 10. Creator of artificial brain.

information technology industry:
"after Wiener's trip in Japan, many
Japanese scientists had started to
study Wiener's work under the guidance of Professor Ikehara. These
events founded the current prospect
of the Japanese Information Technology. So we can say that Wiener
opened [the] Japanese IT world" (my
emphasis) [6]. Given Japan's highranking status today as a leader in
IT development, Wiener's role as an
inspiration or motivator to mid-twentieth-century Japanese scientists
becomes all the more significant.
The notion that these documents
can make us newly aware of these
international, cross-temporal lines
of influence nicely encapsulates the
historiographic value of Ikehara's
collection: in contrast to the lack of
information about Wiener's connecJune 2017

tions to Japan that has been available to scholars of twentieth-century
science and technology studies, we
can now identify important lineages
of mentorship running between Wiener and the Japanese scientists he
reached both in person and through
Ikehara's many years of instruction.
As you read through the selection of documents from the Ikehara
Collection that we have included -
perhaps struggling a bit to decipher
Wiener's scrawling handwriting, or
squinting at the photographs as you
try to figure out what, exactly, he
and his wife are eating - I hope that
you get a taste of the historian's and
the biographer's excitement. History gets written, revised, improved,
and deepened through the feedback
loops that archives like this one
provide. And here we are, more than
∕

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine

50  years after Wiener's death, only
just encountering a brand new treasure trove to explore.

Author Information
Heather Love is Assistant Professor
of English, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069; Heather
.Love@usd.edu.

References

[1] N. Wiener, I Am a Mathematician. New
York, NY: Doubleday, 1956.
[2] S. Ikehara, "An extension of Landau's theorem in the analytic theory of numbers," J.
Math and Physics, vol. 10, pp. 1-12, 1931.
[3] N. Wiener, "Tauberian theorems," Annals
of Mathematics, vol. 33, pp. 1-100, 1932.
[4] F. Conway and J. Siegelman, Dark Hero of
the Information Age. Cambridge, MA: Basic,
2005, p. 286.
[5] O. Hirota and H. Love, personal correspondence, May 16, 2016 and Jan. 22, 2017.
[6] O. Hirota and H. Love, personal correspondence, Jan. 22, 2017.

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