Conferences

Sunday 20^th May, at 11.00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, the Academician Solomon Marcus will hold a conference with the title The Need for Entertainment. The price for a ticket is 23 or 10 lei.

About the conference  

Everything that stirs the attention, everything that surprises or enchants is entertainment. Sometimes we look for it, other times it takes us by surprise. As soon as people forget their worries, many fall into boredom. The salvation? In entertainment. Potentially, it is everywhere. But how many of us are able to see it? There are too many who look for it in the oblivious, even trivial part of life. Is there an alternative? An incursion in history and a radiography of the present can help us. Acad. Solomon Marcus

About Acad. Solomon Marcus

He was born on the 1^st March 1925, in Bacău. Mathematician, tenured member of the Romanian Academy, consultant professor at the University of Bucharest. Research and didactic activities in mathematical analysis, theoretic computer sciences, linguistics, semiotics, poetics, mathematic applications in natural and social sciences, philosophy and history of science. He published in these areas  tens of books in Romanian, English, French, Russian, German, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Serbian-Croatian, Czech and Greek and several hundreds of articles in specialty magazines from all the five continents. He is recognized as one of the initiators of mathematical linguistics and mathematical poetics. He is a member in the editorial committees of tens of national and international  magazines, among which International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Fundamenta Informaticae, Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences, Poetics Today. He was a guest professor or held conferences at universities from North and South America, Asia and Oceania. Invited protractor at numerous international scientific meetings. Author of a great number of articles published in cultural magazines, in which he advocates for an integrating attitude, that permits the exchange between all disciplines, going beyond any fragmentary vision and discovering the human fund of knowledge and behavior. On these lines, he proposes a new reading of history of science and, especially, of the history of Romanian mathematics. His books and articles were read by over a thousand authors, among which some of the most respectable representatives of the domains in which he worked. The contextual grammars, which he introduced in 1969, bare his name and were the object of tens of studies, among which is also a book with the title Marcus contextual grammars, published in 1997 at the Dutch publishing house Kluwer. For his pioneering work in mathematical linguistic and mathematical poetics and for other results, he was mentioned in general knowledge encyclopedias like "Brockhaus", "Larousse", "Enciclopedia Einaudi", "Encyclopaedia Universalis", "Great Soviet Encyclopedia", "Enciclopedia Italiana" as well as in mathematics, computer science, cybernetic, linguistic, semiotics, literary theory and global issues of mankind dictionaries and encyclopedias. He formed a great number of disciples, who had him as a PhD. coordinator; some of them gained a worldwide fame and formed disciples of their own. Solomon Marcus is the disciple of two great professors, Miron Nicolescu and Grigore C. Moisil; he has in mind to continue their tradition, as well as that of other great figures of Romanian mathematics.

The most recent publications: Mathematics in Romania (2004),CUB Press 22; The Meeting of Extremities (2005), Universal Paradigms (2005), Universal Paradigms II; Starting from a Smile (2006), Universal Paradigms III; The Game (2007), Paralela 45 Publishing House; "Words and languages everywhere", Polimetrica - International Scientific Publisher, Milano. Coordinator and co-author at Grigore C. Moisil And His Followers (2007), The Romanian Academy's Publishing House.       

Other publications: Mathematical Analysis (in collaboration.), Ed. Didactică şi Pedagogică, vol.1, 1961, 1963, 1966, 1971, 1980; vol.2,1966, 1971,1980; Grammars and Finite Automata, Ed. Academiei Române, 1964; Algebraic Linguistics; Analytical Models, Academic Press, New York and London, 1967; Introduction mathematique a la linguistique structurale, Dunod, Paris, 1967; Introduzione alla linguistica matematica (in collaboration), Casa editrice Riccardo Patron, Bologna, 1970; Mathematische Poetik, Athenaeum Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, 1973; From the Romanian Mathematical Thinking, Ed. Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, 1975; La semiotique formelle du folklore (in collaboration) Klincksieck, Paris, 1978; Contextual ambiguities in natural and in artificial languages (in collaboration.), Communication and Cognition, Ghent, Belgium, vol. 1, 1981, vol.2, 1983; The Paradox, Ed. Albatros, 1984; Time, Ed. Albatros, 1985; Arts and Sciences, Ed. Eminescu, 1986; The Mathematical Shock, Ed. Albatros, 1987; Invention and Discovery, Ed. Cartea Românească, 1989; Language, Logic, Cognition and Communication, Report 9/96, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, 1996.

Translated by: Izabella Feher

MTTLC, Bucharest University