Introduction to Cybernetics

Before readers - the classical work of an outstanding scientist, pioneer of cybernetics in the USSR and the world, the creator of scientific and technical foundations for the information industry of the Soviet Union, academician Viktor Mikhailovich Glushkov. The book contains and summarizes the material necessary for building such sections of cybernetics as the theory of electronic digital machines, the theory of discrete automatic machines and the theory of discrete self -organizing systems, automation of mental processes, the theory of recognition of images, etc. and logical networks, the main issues of the theory of machine guns, the principles of constructing electronic digital machines and universal algorithmic languages, the basis of the theory of Persepthrons, some fundamental issues of the theory of self -organizational systems.
The sections of the books related to the actual cybernetics are presented in more detail, the formulated theorems are supplied with sufficiently detailed evidence. At the same time, in sections such as the abstract theory of algorithms and mathematical logic, which developed within the framework of traditional mathematics, the material is described more compressed, the evidence is usually omitted.
The book, according to the author, was designed for wide circles of mathematicians, engineers and scientists of many specialties who want to master the minimum of knowledge that is necessary for working in the field of theoretical problems of cybernetics