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Solomon Marcus, a Great Savant and Well-known Scientist

Author(s): Romulus-Dan Busnea
Subject(s): Cultural history, Education and training
Published by: Asociația Cultural Științifică „Dimitrie Ghika-Comănești”
Keywords: mathematician; scientist; linguists; academician; genius;

Summary/Abstract: Solomon Marcus was a Romanian mathematician recognized as one of the initiators of mathematical linguistics and mathematical poetics. He has been member of the editorial board of tens of international scientific journals covering all his domains of interest. Solomon Marcus is featured in „People and Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science and The Human Face of Computing”. A collection of his papers in English followed by some interviews and a brief autobiography was published in 2007 as „Words and Languages Everywhere”. Marcus has contributed to the following areas: 1) Mathematical Analysis, Set Theory, Measure and Integration Theory, and Topology; 2) Theoretical Computer Science; 3) Linguistics; 4) Poetics and Theory of Literature; 5) Semiotics; 6) Cultural Anthropology; 7) History and Philosophy of Science; 8) Education. Solomon Marcus published about 50 books in Romanian, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Hungarian, Czech, Serbo‑Croatian, and about 400 research articles in specialized journals in almost all European countries, in the United States, Canada, South America, Japan, India and New Zealand among others; he is cited by more than a thousand authors, including mathematicians, computer scientists, linguists, literary researchers, semioticians, anthropologists and philosophers.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 249-255
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian