Grigore C. Moisil (1906-1973)

Romanian mathematician; Professor at the University of Bucharest, member of the Romanian Academy. Member of the Academy of Sciences in Bologna and of the International Institute of Philosophy.

He published mainly in the fields of mathematical analysis, algebra, mathematical logic, geometry, mechanics. Some of his most important contributions were made in the field of algebraic theory for automatic devices. New analysis and synthesis methods for finite automata as well as a structure theory on them are also due to Professor Grigore Moisil. He extended D. Pompeiu's areolar derivative to a multi-dimensional space and analysed the monogenic functions of hypercomplex variable, with applications in mechanics. He introduced what he called Lukasiewicz trivalent, multi-valent algebras and applied them in logic and the study of switching circuits.

Grigore Moisil 's name is also associated with those who, in Romania, introduced the first electronic computers and worked on them.

Main works: "La mécanique analytique des systemes continus" (1929), "Logique modale" (1942), "Introduction to Algebra" (1954), "Algebraic Theory of Automatic Devices"" (1959), "Transistor Circuits" (2 volumes, 1961-1962).

Last update: 2004, October 27
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