Louis Couffignal (1902-1966) was a French Mathematician and Cybernetics pioneer. Year 1902 ( MCMII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the Structure of Complex systems especially Communication processes control mechanisms and Feedback He taught in schools in the southwest of Brittany, then at the naval academy and, eventually, at the Buffon School. Brittany (Breizh bʁejs Bretagne; Gallo: Bertaèyn) is a former independent Celtic kingdom and Duchy, now incorporated into
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Biography
After joining the school, Couffignal hesitated to write a thesis on Symbolic Logic but after his meetings with Maurice d'Ocagne, he decided to focus on machines and on Mechanical Logic.
He published a variety of notes at the Academy of Sciences, with a focus on using binary computation by machines to solve new problems. Following Leibniz, he promoted binary numbers as the basis of calculating machines. Couffignal received his Doctorate of Sciences in 1938 with his thesis on Mechanical Analysis, demonstrating applications for machines to calculate celestial mechanics. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Couffignal took on an interest in Cybernetics, influenced by his meetings with Louis Lapicque in 1941 and the cyberneticist Norbert Wiener in 1946. Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Norbert Wiener ( November 26, 1894, Columbia Missouri – March 18, 1964, Stockholm, Sweden) was an American Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
With Lapicque, Couffignal compared the functioning of the nervous system and that of machines, as Wiener prepared his book Cybernetics, the book that established the foundations for the subject. The nervous system is a Network of specialized cells that communicate information about an animal's surroundings and itself
Between 1938 and 1960, Couffignal was the director of the Blaise Pascal Calculation Center. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In 1945, he was named Inspector General of Public Teaching. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar In 1951, Couffignal prepared an international conference on thinking machines to bring together the greatest specialists in this new scence, including Norbert Wiener, W. Ross Ashby, Warren McCulloch, etc. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Norbert Wiener ( November 26, 1894, Columbia Missouri – March 18, 1964, Stockholm, Sweden) was an American W Ross Ashby ( September 6, 1903, - November 15, 1972) was an English Psychiatrist and a pioneer in Cybernetics Warren Sturgis McCulloch ( November 16, 1899 – September 24, 1969) was an American neurophysiologist and cybernetician as Inspector General, he created the first BTS teaching degree in France.
Publications
Couffignal has written several books and articles. A selection:
- Les machines à calculer. Leurs principes. Leur évolution.
- 1952, Les machines à penser. Couffignal Éditions de Minuit.
- 1956, "Essai d’une définition générale de la cybernétique", The First International Congress on Cybernetics, Namur, Belgium, June 26-29, 1956, Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1958, pp. 46-54
- 1968, Le dossier de la cybernétique -Marabout Université 1968
- 1972, La cybernétique et ses théoriciens - Delpech J. L Ed. Casterman.
- 1978, La cybernétique, Presses Universitaires France.
See also
External links
- Louis Couffignal: Trait d'union entre bastide et cybernétique by Patrick Saint-Jean (French)
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