Solomon Marcus was a Romanian mathematician, member of the Mathematical Section of the Romanian Academy and emeritus professor of the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Mathematics.
10 Facts About Solomon Marcus
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Solomon Marcus published numerous papers on various cultural topics: poetics, linguistics, semiotics, philosophy, and history of science and education.
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Solomon Marcus was born in Bacau, Romania, to Sima and Alter Marcus, a Jewish family of tailors.
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Solomon Marcus graduated from Ferdinand I High School in 1944, and completed his studies at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, in 1949.
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Solomon Marcus continued tutoring throughout college and later recounted in an interview that he had to endure hunger during those years and that till the age of 20 he only wore hand-me-downs from his older brothers.
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Solomon Marcus was appointed Lecturer in 1955, Associate Professor in 1964, and became a Professor in 1966.
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Solomon Marcus is recognised as one of the initiators of mathematical linguistics and of mathematical poetics, and has been a member of the editorial board of tens of international scientific journals covering all his domains of interest.
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Solomon Marcus is featured in the 1999 book People and Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science.
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The book "Meetings with Solomon Marcus", edited by Lavinia Spandonide and Gheorghe Paun for Marcus' 85th birthday, includes recollections by several hundred people from a large variety of scientific and cultural fields, and from 25 countries.
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Solomon Marcus died of cardiac infections at the Fundeni Clinical Institute in Bucharest after a short stay at Elias Hospital in Bucharest.