Louis Couffignal

Louis Couffignal (1902–1966) was a French mathematician and cybernetics pioneer.

Works

• Les machines à calculer, leur principe, leur evolutions, Gauthier-Villars, 1933. (French)
• Les machines à penser, Paris: Minuit, 1952, 153 pp; 2nd ed., 1964, 133 pp. (French)
  • Denkmaschinen, foreword Max Bense, trans. Elisabeth Walther with Max Bense, Stuttgart: Klipper, 1955, 186 pp; 1965. (German)
• La cybernétique, Paris: PUF, 1963; 3rd ed., 1968. Djvu. (French) Review.

See also

• Information theory and cybernetics in France (1950s)

Links

• http://www.cbi.umn.edu/hostedpublications/Tomash/pdf/04%20C%20chapter.pdf#page=98
• http://www.cbi.umn.edu/hostedpublications/Tomash/Images%20web%20site/Image%20files/C%20Images/index_22.htm
• http://computer.org/computer-pioneers/pdfs/C/Couffignal.pdf
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Couffignal
• http://histm2.free.fr/H.Couffign.htm