Wiener’s Letter to Professor Kosambi
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Wiener’s Letter to Professor Kosambi |
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Wiener’s Letter to Professor Kosambi |
| Source | Norbert Wiener papers, MC-0022, Box: 5, Folder: 73, Correspondence, 1947 January 1-15. Department of Distinctive Collections, MIT Libraries |
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| https://dome.mit.edu/handle/1721.3/193679 | |
| Rights | In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted |
| Rights Holder | Correspondence, 1947 January 1-15, Wiener, Norbert, 1894-1964, MIT Libraries |
| Creator | Wiener, Norbert |
| Date | January 4, 1947 |
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January 4, 1947 Professor D. D. Kosambi Tata Institute of Pundamental Research 53 Pedder Road Bombay 26, India Dear Professor Kosambi: I am very glad to receive4 from you the letter of introduction of Mrs. P.J. Vesugar. I shall do anything I can to help her. I as also glad to hear from you again. I have heard of your work in India many times and have been wondering how you have been getting on. Tell me more about your family to. Tour sister was a great friend of my sister and of my wife, who was Margaret kngeman when she was at Radcliffe. We also saw a great deal of your brotherIn-law. Ram Prasad, After these many years, it would be very nice to renew the ties of friendship between our families. I am branching out into work on the application of Mathematics to Physiology, doing a large part of it in Mexico together with Dr. Arturo Rosenbleuth, the physiologist. My own Mathematical work has been taking on somewhat of an applied character from my war work. As to my family, my wife and I are well as are my mother and sisters, My father died about five years ago. I have who are both married. two daughters, aged respectively 19 and 19, both in university work in Chemistry. I see a great deal of the Indian students at Tech and although I have never had the opportunity to visit your country, I have always Ten years ago I spent been interested in following happenings there. a year in China, teaching at the National Tsing Hua University in Peking. It was one of the most delightful experiences in my life, and different as China and India are I felt that I began to get some understanding of the Orient through my stay there. Sincerely yours. Norbert Wiener NW/am |
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