Int. J. of Computers, Communications & Control, ISSN 1841-9836, E-ISSN 1841-9844
Vol. V (2010), No. 2, pp. 144-147

Acad. Solomon Marcus at 85 Years
(A Selective Bio-bibliography)

F. G. Filip (Editor in Chief of IJCCC),
I. Dzitac (Associate Editor in Chief of IJCCC)

Professor Solomon Marcus is one of the seniors of the Romanian science and culture, with a tremen-
dously diverse and intensive activity, with numerous, fundamental, and many times pioneering contri-
butions to mathematics, mathematical linguistics, formal language theory, semiotics, education, and to
other areas, with an impressive internal and international impact and recognition, since several decades
very actively involved in the scientific and cultural life – and still as active as ever at his age. That is why
the short presentation below is by no means complete, it is only a way to pay our homage to him at his
85th birthday anniversary.

We are honored and we thank to professor Solomon Marcus for having the kindness to publish, in
the first issue of this journal, an article occasioned by the Moisil centenary1.

1 Biography and General Data

Born at March 1, 1925, in Bacău, Romania. Elementary school and high school in Bacău, classified
the first at the school-leaving examination (“bacalaureat"), in 1944. Faculty of Science, Mathemat-
ics, University of Bucharest, 1945-1949. Assistant professor since 1950, lecturer since 1955, associate
professor since 1964, and professor since 1966. Professor Emeritus since 1991, when he retired. All
positions held in the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest. PhD in Mathematics in 1956
(with the thesis about “Monotonous functions of two variables"), State Doctor in Sciences in 1968, both
at the University of Bucharest. Corresponding Member of Romanian Academy since April 1993, and
Full Member of the Romanian Academy (Academician) since December 2001.

1Grigore C. Moisil: A Life Becoming a Myth, International Journal of Computers, Communications & Control, 1(1),73-79,
2006

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Research and teaching in the fields of mathematical analysis, theoretical computer science, measure
theory, general topology, linguistics, history and philosophy of mathematics, poetics, semiotics, applica-
tions of mathematics to natural and social sciences.

Has published over 50 books, as single author or in collaboration, and over 400 research articles, as
well as several hundreds of articles on various cultural topics. Has edited over 40 collective volumes.

More than 250 invited lectures at various universities from Europe, Americas, and Asia.

In his papers and books has solved many open problems in mathematical analysis and has formulated
a still larger number of problems and research topics, has introduced new ideas, notions and models,
which were addressed and continued by a large number of researchers. Just an example: the contextual
grammars he has introduced in 1967-68 are now called Marcus contextual grammars and were subject
of many papers and PhD theses, as well as of two monographs.

Many students and collaborators, a really “contagious" professor and researcher.

Cited and followed by thousand of authors, from Romania and abroad.

His books were reviewed and commented by many personalities, among whom, we mention a
few: Emanuel Vasiliu, Mike Holcombe, Sheng Yu, Yehosua Bar-Hillel, Maurice Gross, L. Nebesky,
Michel Janot, I.I. Revzin, Ferenc Kiefer, H.P. Edmundson, Ju.A. Sreider, Jacob L. Mey, Carlo Tagli-
avini, Gr.C. Moisil, Matei Călinescu, Nicolae Manolescu, Sorin Stati, K. Sgallova, P. Sgall, Gabriela
Melinescu, Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, Virgil Nemoianu, Adrian Marino, Miron Nicolescu, Alexandru
Ivasiuc, Wladimir Krysinski, Mircea Mihăieş, Şerban Cioculescu, Eugen Simion, Constantin Negoiţă,
Tudor Octavian, Dinu Flamând, Stelian Tănase, Alin Teodorescu, Mircea Scarlat, Smaranda Vultur, Cris-
tian Calude, Gheorghe Păun, Tudorel Urian, Paul Cernat, Irina Mavrodin, Rosa del Conte, Jean-Pierre
Descles, Umberto Eco, Marius Iosifescu, Roman Jakobson, Gheorghe Mihoc, Octav Onicescu, Cesare
Segre, Gheorghe Tomozei, Iorgu Iordan, Constanţa Buzea, Cornel Ungureanu, Bogdan Suceavă, Basarab
Nicolescu, Alexandru T. Balaban, Mihai Zamfir, and many others.

Member of the editorial board of over three dozens of professional journals.

Among the numerous honors received, we recall: Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universities of Bacău,
Constanţa, and Craiova. Vice President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (1989-
1999). Honorary President of the Balkan Semiotic Society (since 2001). Member of the Executive
Committee of the International Association for Semiotic Studies. Honorary Member of the International
Association for Visual Semiotics. Honorary Member of the Toronto Semiotic Circle, of Como (Italy)
Semiotic Circle and of the Hungarian Semiotic Society. Honorary member of the Romanian Mathemat-
ical Society. Permanent Invited Professor, Sao Paulo Catholic University. Member of the Romanian
National Mathematical Committee. Member of the leading Council of the Romanian Linguistic Society.
Member of the Romanian Union of Writers and Member (1990-1995) of the leading Council of this
Union. Vice-president of the Romanian Semiotic Society. Member of the Romanian Committee for the
Club of Rome. Honorary member of the Society Eratosthene, Switzerland.

He has also received many prizes, in Romania and abroad.

With various occasions, special issue of journals and collective volumes were devoted to him. Here
are some of them: The International Journal of Computer Mathematics (Great Britain) and Revue
Roumaine de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquées devoted some of their issues in 1985 to his 60th an-
niversary, while two collective volumes were dedicated to his 70th anniversary, in 1995, Mathematical
Aspects of Natural and Formal Languages, World Scientific, Singapore, 1994, and Mathematical Lin-
guistics and Related Topics, Ed. Academiei, Bucharest, 1995. In the year 2000, two volumes were
dedicated to his 75th anniversary: Finite vs Infinite. An Eternal Dilemma, Springer, London, and Recent
Topics in Mathematical and Computational Linguistics, Ed. Academiei, Bucharest. In the year 2005,
volume 64, numbers 1-4 of Fundamenta Informaticae were published as a “Special issue in Honor of the
80th Birthday of Professor Solomon Marcus", with papers by 70 authors from 16 countries.



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I. Dzitac (Associate Editor in Chief of IJCCC)

2 Books, Authored or Co-authored

1. Lingvistica matematică. Modele matematice în lingvistică. Ed. Didactică şi Pedagogică. Bu-
cureşti, 1963.

2. Gramatici şi automate finite. Ed Academiei, Bucureşti, 1964.

3. Analiza matematică. Vol. I. Ed. Didactică şi Pedagogică, Bucureşti, 1st edition 1962, 2nd edition
1963, 3rd edition 1966, 4th edition 1971, 5th edition 1980 (in collab. with M. Nicolescu and N.
Dinculeanu).

4. Lingvistica matematică (2nd edition, revised and completed with 4 new chapters). Ed. Didactică
şi Pedagogică, Bucureşti, 1966.

5. Introducere în lingvistica matematică. Ed. Ştiinţifică, Bucureşti, 1966 (in collab. with E. Nicolau
and S. Stati)

6. Noţiuni de analiză matematică. Originea, evoluţia şi semnificaţia lor. Ed. Ştiinţifică, Bucureşti,
1967.

7. Limbaj, logică, filozofie. Ed. Ştiinţifică, Bucureşti, 1968 (in collab. with Al. Boboc, Gh. Enescu,
C. Popa, and S. Stati).

8. Analiza matematică. Vol. II. Ed. Didactică şi Pedagogică, Bucureşti, 1st edition 1966, 2nd edition
1971, 3rd edition 1980 (in collab. with M. Nicolescu and N. Dinculeanu).

9. Introduction mathematique a la linguistique structurale. Dunod, Paris, 1967.

10. Algebraic Linguistics; Analytical Models. Academic Press, New York, 1967.

11. Poetica matematică. Ed. Academiei, Bucureşti, 1970.

12. Teoretiko-mnozestvennye modeli jazykov. Ed. Nauka, Moscova, 1970 (translation of the first five
chapters of book 10 and of the last chapter of book 9).

13. Algebraicke modely jazyka. Ed. Academia, Prague, 1969 (translation in Czech of book 4, and of a
part of book 2).

14. Introduzione alla linguistica matematica. Casa editrice Riccardo Patron, Bologna, 1970 (revised
and completed translation of book 5; in collab. with E. Nicolau and S. Stati).

15. Mathematische Poetik. Ed. Academiei, Bucureşti – Athenaum-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1973
(revised and completed translation of book 11).

16. Matematicka Poetika. Ed. Nolit, Belgrad, 1974 (revised and completed Serbo-Croatian translation
of book 11).

17. Din gândirea matematică românească. Ed. Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, Bucureşti, 1975.

18. Semiotica folclorului. Abordare lingvistico-matematică. Ed. Academiei, Bucureşti, 1975 (co-
author).

19. Matematicka analyza ctena podruhe. Ed. Academia, Prague, 1976 (revised and completed Czech
translation of book 6).

20. A nyelvi szepseq matematikaja. Ed. Gondolat, Budapesta, 1977.

21. Metode distribuţionale algebrice în lingvistică. Ed. Academiei, Bucureşti, 1977 (coauthor).

22. La semiotique formelle du folklore. Approche linguistico-mathematique. Ed. Klincksieck, Paris –
Ed. Academiei, Bucureşti, 1978 (revised and completed translation of book 18; co-author).

23. Introduccion en la linguistica matematica. Ed. Teide. Barcelona, 1978 (revised and completed
Spanish translation of book 5).

24. Semne despre semne. Ed. Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, Bucureşti, 1979.



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25. Contextual ambiguities in natural & artificial languages. Vol. 1, Communication and Cognition,
Ghent, Belgium, 1981 (revised and completed translation of a part of book 21).

26. Snmeia gia ta snmeia. Ed. Pneumatikos, Atena, 1981 (Greek translation of book 24).

27. Metode matematice în problematica dezvoltării. Ed. Academiei, Bucureşti, 1982 (co-author).

28. Gândirea algoritmică. Ed. Tehnică, Bucureşti, 1982.

29. Semiotica matematică a artelor vizuale. Ed. Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, Bucureşti, 1982 (coordi-
nator and co-author).

30. Simion Stoilow. Ed. Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, Bucureşti, 1983 (in collab. with Cabiria Andreian
Cazacu).

31. Paradoxul. Ed. Albatros, Bucureşti, 1984.

32. Timpul. Ed. Albatros, Bucureşti, 1985.

33. Artă şi ştiinţă. Ed. Eminescu, Bucureşti, 1986.

34. Analiza matematică. Vol. II, Univ. Bucureşti, 1986 (co-author).

35. To Paradocso. Ed. Pneumatikos, Atena, 1986 (Greek version of book 31).

36. Şocul matematicii. Ed. Albatros, Bucureşti, 1987.

37. Moduri de gândire. Colecţia “Ştiinţa pentru toţi", Ed. Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, Bucureşti, 1987.

38. Provocarea ştiinţei. Seria “Idei contemporane", Ed. Politică, Bucureşti, 1988.

39. Invenţie şi descoperire. Ed. Cartea Românească, 1989.

40. Analiza matematică. Materiale pentru perfecţionarea profesorilor de liceu III. Universitatea din
Bucureşti, Facultatea de Matematică, Bucureşti, 1989 (co-author).

41. Dicţionar de Analiză Matematică. Ed. Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, Bucureşti, 1989 (co-author).

42. Controverse în ştiinţă şi inginerie. Ed. Tehnică, Bucureşti, 1991.

43. Language, Logic, Cognition and Communication; A Semiotic,Computational and Historical Ap-
proach. Report 9/96. Grup de Recerca en Linguistica Matematica i Enginyeria del Llenguatge.
Reports Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, 1996.

44. Matematica, manual pentru clasa a IX-a, licee teoretice specializarea filologie (in colab. with
Mihaela Singer). Ed. Sigma, Bucureşti, 1999; 2nd edition, 2000.

45. Matematica, manual pentru clasa a XII-a (in colab. with P. Alexandrescu, M. Radulescu, S.
Radulescu). Ed. Paralela 45, Bucureşti – Piteşti, 2002.

46. Jocul ca libertate. Ed. Scripta (Colecţia ludică), Bucureşti, 2003.

47. Mathematics in Romania. CUB Press 22, Baia Mare, 2004.

48. Intâlnirea extremelor. Scriitori în orizontul ştiinţei. Ed. Paralela 45, Bucureşti – Piteşti, 2005.

49. Paradigme universale. Ed. Paralela 45, Piteşti – Bucureşti, 2005.

50. Paradigme universale II. Pornind de la un zâmbet. Ed. Paralela 45, Piteşti – Bucureşti, 2006.

51. Paradigme universale III. Jocul. Ed. Paralela 45, Piteşti – Bucureşti, 2007.

52. Words and Languages Everywhere. Polimetrica Academic Publisher, Milano, 2007.

53. Solomon Marcus (protagonist): Educaţia în spectacol. Spandugino Publ. House., Bucureşti, 2010.