Teleology which focuses instead on goal-contribution. With the objective goals of organisms being survival and inclusive fitness, Piccinini and Maley define teleological functions to be “a stable contribution by a trait (or component, activity, property) of organisms belonging to a biological population to an objective goal of those organisms.” Julian Bigelow, Arturo Rosenblueth, and Norbert Wiener have conceived of feedback mechanisms as lending a teleology to machinery. Wiener, a mathematician, coined the term 'cybernetics' to denote the study of "teleological mechanisms." Cybernetics is the study of the communication and control of regulatory feedback both in living beings and machines, and in
Wiener algebra functions on the unit circle. On the other hand an integration by parts, together with the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality and Parseval's formula, shows that More generally, for formula_8 (see ). proved that if has absolutely convergent Fourier series and is never zero, then its inverse also has an absolutely convergent Fourier series. Many other proofs have appeared since then, including an elementary one by . which is equivalent to Wiener's theorem. Wiener algebra In mathematics, the Wiener algebra, named after Norbert Wiener and usually denoted by , is the space of absolutely convergent Fourier series. Here denotes the circle group. The