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> cybernetics was also a prohibited "bourgeois pseudoscience" in USSR at those times Huh! This surprised me, because the USSR made pretty major controbutions t
by jbay808 6y ago
> cybernetics was also a prohibited "bourgeois pseudoscience" in USSR at those times
Huh! This surprised me, because the USSR made pretty major controbutions to cybernetics and control theory. I guess that happened after they changed their stance?
- trhway 6y agoIt was for relatively short period of a few years, and many of related work at that time was done just as applied math, like Pontryagin principle developed at the time. The country needed its missiles and planes after all - similarly to why the "Jewish Physics" mentioned by another commenter was allowed.