# An Introduction to Cybernetics **Domain:** Cybernetics / Systems Theory **Doc Type:** Work Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[W. Ross Ashby]], [[Requisite Variety]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] --- ## Definition W. Ross Ashby’s 1956 systematic introduction to cybernetic concepts including variety, constraint and regulation. ## Kybernetiks Context It supplies the formal basis for the article’s reading of mass schooling through [[Requisite Variety]]. ## Backlinks [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] · [[articles/Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks|Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]