Re: Why Wiener?

On 30 Mar, 14:22, "julius" <juli...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 30, 6:40 am, "Rune Allnor" <all...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Cultural differences is a major issue here. Remember, once Wiener's
WW II papers were de-classified, the cold war was on. Getting
access to Russian papers was not at all easy for people in the
west; crediting the Russians for their contributions was probably
a very sensitive issue even if the material was known.

Thse sorts of things are everywhere, once you start looking for
them. What I know as Snell's law of ray refractions, the French
know as Descarte's law.

Rune

Yup. But one can still find papers written in the "West" that
refer to the Wiener-Kolmogorov filter, at least in the 1970s,
so the knowledge of the shared credit is not completely lost.

I haven't seen Wiener's original papers or reports, so
I don't know what previous works he cited. The seminal
reference on the Remez exchange algorithm is a paper or
book by Remez in Russian from the late '50s. In underwater
acoustics, no western text comes even remotely close to
Brekhovskikh's text from around 1960 (I don't remember now
if the text was first published in 1960, or if the English
translation became available in 1960).

Don't get me wrog, very useful material *did* seep through
the Iron Courtain.

Rune

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