Grigore Moisil

Grigore Constantin Moisil ( born January 10, 1906 in Tulcea, † May 21, 1973 in Ottawa ) was a Romanian mathematician and computer scientist.

Moisils father Constantin Moisil (1867-1958) was professor of history and numismatist, member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences, and his mother was a teacher and later headmistress.

Moisil in 1929 at Dimitrie Pompeiu ( and Georghe Titeica ) at the University of Bucharest Ph.D. in mathematics (La mecanique Analytique of systemes continus ). Originally, he had also begun to study engineering at the Polytechnic, but that did not end after his move to mathematics. 1930/31 he continued his studies in Paris continues among others, Elie Cartan and Jacques Hadamard. After that, he was a professor at the University of Iasi. 1931/32 he was a Rockefeller Fellowship in Rome by Vito Volterra. After he first deals with analysis, he turned to the study of the famous algebra textbook by Bartel Leendert van der Waerden and the algebra ( he was the first courses on modern algebra in Romania) and influenced by works by Jan Lukasiewicz mathematical logic. In a work from 1940, he led the later by Moisil algebras and Lukasiewicz named (LM- algebras ) in the multi-valued logic. In 1941 he became a professor in Bucharest.

In 1950 he turned to the logical theory of circuits, which he published a book ( in Romanian) 1959. He was also involved in much of the installation of the first computer in Romania in 1957 at the Institute of Atomic Physics and began to give computer science courses at this time.

In 1948 he became a member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences, and he was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Bologna. In 1996 he received the Computer Pioneer Award of the IEEE.

His doctoral Peter Hammer belongs.

Writings

• Théorie structurelle automates the finis, Gauthier -Villars, Paris, 1967
• The algebraic theory of switching circuits, Pergamon Press, Oxford 1969