Grigore Constantin Moisil

The Romanian mathematician and computer scientist Grigore C. Moisil (January 10,1906, - May 21, 1973) was one of the pioneering forces in establishing the computer industry in Romania

After graduation from high school in 1922, he attended the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Bucharest. His parents had more faith in a study in engineering and convinced him to attend the Polytech University of Bucharest as well. He didn’t enjoy this topic and in 1929 he quit the Polytech University. That same year he got his Ph.D. in Mathematics with a thesis on Analytical mechanics of continuous systems. The study was published in Paris and was favourably received by the mathematics world of that time. In 1930 he attended the University of Paris to further his studies in Mathematics, but in 1931 he returned to Romania to accept a teaching post at the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Iaşi. Here he developed and taught the first modern algebra course in Romania. In 1936 he was appointed Professor in Differential and Integral Calculus and in 1939 he also became Professor of Calculus. After World War II Moisil started teaching mathematical logic. He continued on the ideas of Shannon that electric circuits and binary logic have a commonality in that both use a system of yes/no or open/closed and in 1961-1962 he published his two-volume Transistor Circuits. He continued to publish his papers on mathematics, algebra, number theory, mechanics, mathematical logic and the study of automata theory, like The Algebraic Theory of Switching Circuits. He advocated the study of computers in Romania and encouraged his math students to study computer programming. That way he played an essential role in the development of the field of computer science in Romania.

1.      After graduation from high school in 1922, Grigore C Moisil attended the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of:

a. Paris

b.Bucharest

c. Iasi

2. In 1936 Grigore C. Moisil :

-  Become Professor of Calculus

-  Become Professor in Differential and Integral Calculus

-  Publish his two-volume Transistor Circuit.

3.Grigore Moisil got his PhD in Mathematics in

a. 1926

b. 1929
 

c. 1939

By Prof. Molcalut Georgeta - Florentina