In 1834 Andre Marie Ampere, the French physicist and mathematician systematized the human knowledge of his day He classified all the sci- ences of human knowledge of that time under different numbers. Un- der number 83 he listed a science that was to deal with the methods of regulating society,
Ampere termed this science "cybernetics" from the Greek word "kubernetes" meaning 'steersman or 'pilot, This litéral. translation cmbodies much of the modern relevance of the cybernetics principles. After Ampere, however, the term cy- bernetics was forgotten until it appeared again in 1948 in a book of the well-known American mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894-1964).
