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Romanian professor
Some scientists lead the way in one direction, others, conversely, distinguish themselves in all directions of science, thinking, civic activity: such a universal scientist and also a philosopher of science was Grigore C. Moisil. He was a true modern humanist, who promoted a lifetime innovating spirit, always searching for truth, fine humor (never free), and in combating superficiality, narrowness of specialization, imposture, improvisation, servility. Great essayist and lecturer, fascinating the audience by charm of his speech, he was "man of great spiritual delight”, as he calls him the mathematics historian G. St.. Andoni.
Son of a famous numismatist, Moisil Constantin, Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy, Grigore C. Moisil was born in 1906 in Tulcea, where his father was professor of history. He followed the high school in Vaslui and Bucharest, in school years he gave proof of his talent, thought multilateral conferences on cultural and historical themes. At the same time he was writing poetry, even a play, all this beside collaboration in "Mathematical Gazette". After high school, he followed the Polytechnic School of Bucharest courses, but after three years he realized that his vocation is mathematics, so is committed only mathematics courses at the Faculty of Sciences in Bucharest, where in three years, obtained a license (1926). After another three years, in 1929, obtained, in Bucharest, his Ph.D. in mathematics with a thesis on mechanical analytical, work published the same year in Paris, by a great specialty publishing house. In 1931 he became docent with a doctor work on mathematical physics equations; in this work he applied highly original algebra’s methods to the study a class of partial derivative algebra equations.
The academic activity is started in 1926 as assistant to the great mathematician D. Pompeiu, and later he advanced lecturer and professor at the University of Iasi, where he got a modern algebra lecture and he is distinguished by his work on mathematical logic, domain in the full advance worldwide that time, but still too little studied to us.
Also expresses this attitude profoundly democratic, antifascist. Beginning 1941, he was professor at the University of Bucharest where his courses are distinguished by the novelty of the material taught, as well as its presentation.
Issues covered in his courses are diverse: functional analysis, mathematical physics equations, Finsler geometry, logical algebra, the mechanical application of algebraic methods. Sudden change in activity occurs when he realizes that the logic of mathematics, science chapter regarded as free of applications can be used in the study of discrete automated systems as well as electronic computers.
He had begun to lecture in design and research institutes, institutes of higher education, attracting a number of distinguished youngsters to this new field of science. As a result, in Bucharest, was created a strong school of automation and informatics, Professor Grigore C. Moisil organizing the first electronic computer courses at the Faculty of Mathematics in Bucharest, since 1957. In 1959 appears his fundamental work, The algebraic theory of automated mechanisms, which had a significant international response, being translated into Russian, English, Czech, etc..
Member of several scientific societies at home and abroad, member of the RSR Academy (1948), Grigore C. Moisil was a hard polemist, present in prestigious publications of the time, fighting thought writing, narrow and backward ideas, dangerous to science.
With a remarkable sense of human knowledge, he discovered many young talents, who, under his leadership, became later world-class scientific personalities. If one would have to choose one area where Moisil’s genius asserted more sparkle, one should choose mathematical logic, which owes him many fundamental contributions, as the study of polyvalent logic and fuzzy logic. He was the founder of the Romanian school of logic algebra and of algebraic theory of automatic mechanisms. But the truth is that his genius wasn’t seized in one direction of knowledge. Remains unsurpassed characterization, gave him by his colleague, mathematician and essayist Mircea Malita: "Grigore Moisil was more than a scientist, was more scientists in permanent session".
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variant spelling:
Moisil, Grigore
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Curriculum vitae
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* 1906
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Tulcea
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born
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1926
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Bucuresti
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1926
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Iasi
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1929
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Bucuresti
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1941
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Bucuresti
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1948
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Bucuresti
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† 1973
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Bucuresti
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died
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