CONTENTS
IONEL URDEA MARCUS: Solomon Marcus – Biographical Notes, A Compiled Selection of Biographical Data Prepared for Solomon Marcus 100th Anniversary • 29
SORIN ISTRAIL: Academic highlights biography prepared for
Solomon Marcus 100th Anniversary Year 2025 • 47
SORIN ISTRAIL: Professor Solomon Marcus’ s Axioms • 71
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SOLOMON MARCUS’S
BROWN UNIVERSITY LECTURES
Delivered at Brown University
Department of Computer Science
in 2008 and 2011
SUMMER 2008
Lecture 1: The Loneliness of the Mathematician • 83
Lecture 2: To Prove or Not to Prove, That is the Question! • 116
Lecture 3: Science Today Versus Science Yesterday • 137
Lecture 4: We are Surrounded by Hidden Conflicts • 170
Lecture 5: Information: What Does It Mean? • 195
Lecture 6: Mathematical Mistakes As a Source of Creativity • 236
Lecture 7: The Biological Cell in Spectacle • 267
Lecture 8: Two Neighbors Ignoring Each Other: Infinite Words
and Formal Languages • 302
2011
Lecture 9: The Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Paradigm:
A Transdisciplinary Itinerary • 323
Lecture 10: Correctness and Meaning: Cooperation or Conflict? • 352
Lecture 11: Mathematics: Between Semiosis and Cognition • 394
Lecture 12: Symmetry: A Universal Paradigm
Part One: At the roots of the symmetry phenomena • 446
Part Two: Symmetry as a universal pattern • 468
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SORIN ISTRAIL and SOLOMON MARCUS: Turing and von Neumann’s Brains and their Computers • 492
SORIN ISTRAIL and TRACIE SWEENEY: Randomness is Beautiful: in Search of von Neumann • 517
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SOLOMON MARCUS: Revista SECOLUL 20 / SECOLUL 21 în descendenţa JUNIMII maioresciene // The SECOLUL 20 / SECOLUL 21 Journal in the Succession of Maiorescu’s JUNIMEA (The YOUTH) • 538