Lars Löfgren (1925 – 2013) was a Swedish cybernetician. He was awarded the Wiener Gold Medal by the

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in 2008. Lars Löfgren was involved in extending the logical and linguistic approaches to various problems raised by early cybernetics. His work helped develop a more consistent conceptual base for cybernetics through a holistic approach to second order cybernetics. He was one of the internationally renown cyberneticians invited by Heinz von Förster to the

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, but he did most of his work while professor at

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Works

* (1996)
Shadows of language in physics and cybernetics
, ''Systems Research'', 13(3), 329–340. * (2002)
What is systems science?
in Robert Trappl (Ed.), ''Cybernetics and systems'' 2002 (Vol. 1, pp. 11–16). Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Löfgren, Lars Swedish scientists Cyberneticists Academic staff of Lund University 20th-century Swedish scientists 21st-century Swedish scientists 1925 births 2013 deaths