Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics was established in 1947 as Institute of Mathematics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is the National Academy of Bulgaria, established in 1869. The Academy is autonomous and has a Society of Academicians, Correspondent Members and Foreign Members...

. Its name changed to Institute of Mathematics with Computing Centre in 1961, while from 1970 to 1988 the Institute together with the Faculty of Mathematics at Sofia University

Sofia University

The St. Clement of Ohrid University of Sofia or Sofia University is the oldest higher education institution in Bulgaria, founded on 1 October 1888...

functioned in a unified structure, the Joint Centre of Mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

and Mechanics

Mechanics

Mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the behavior of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of the bodies on their environment....

. The present name was adopted in 1995.

The Institute carries out scientific research in the fields of mathematics

Mathematics

and informatics

Informatics (academic field)

Informatics is the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Informatics studies the structure, algorithms, behavior, and interactions of natural and artificial systems that store, process, access and communicate information...

, as well as their applications to education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

, science

Science

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

, business

Business

A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...

and industry

Industry

Industry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...

, government

Government

Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...

, etc.

Members of the Institute hold teaching positions at a number of Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

n universities

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

and college

College

A college is an educational institution or a constituent part of an educational institution. Usage varies in English-speaking nations...

s, providing also direction to Ph.D.

Ph.D.

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and M.S.

Master of Science

A Master of Science is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in the sciences including the social sciences.-Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay:...

students. The Institute plays an important role in training gifted pupils, graduates, etc. for participating in major international competitions in mathematics

Mathematics

and informatics. In particular, the Bulgaria

Bulgaria

n team in mathematics

Mathematics

has been ranking among the top five at International Mathematical Olympiad

International Mathematical Olympiad

The International Mathematical Olympiad is an annual six-problem, 42-point mathematical olympiad for pre-collegiate students and is the oldest of the International Science Olympiads. The first IMO was held in Romania in 1959. It has since been held annually, except in 1980...

events in the recent years.

Departments

Algebra

Artificial Intelligence

Biomathematics

Complex Analysis

Differential Equations

Education

Education in Mathematics and Informatics

Geometry and Topology

Library

Information Research

Logic

Department of Mathematical Logic (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

The Department of Mathematical Logic at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences was created by the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics in implementation of Government Decree N0. 236 of November 3, 1959...

Mathematical Foundations of Informatics

Mathematical Linguistics

Mathematical Physics

Computational Mathematics

Operation Research

Probability and Statistics

Real and Functional Analysis

Software Engineering

Telecommunications Department

Directors

Academician Lyubomir Chakalov, 1947-50

Academician Nikola Obreshkov

Nikola Obreshkov

Nikola Dimitrov Obreshkov was a prominent Bulgarian mathematician, working in complex analysis.-External links:* , page 28....

, 1951-63

Academician Lyubomir Iliev, 1964-88

Academician Petar Kenderov, 1989-93

Sen.Res.Assoc. Nikolay Yanev, 1994-99

Academician Stefan Dodunekov, 1999 –

Publications

Serdica Mathematical Journal
Serdica Journal of Computing
Mathematica Plus
Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis
Pliska Studia Mathematica Bulgarica
Mathematica Balkanica (founded: New Series, 1987, published quarterly)
Physico-Mathematical Journal (founded: 1904, published quarterly)

Applications

The first computing centre in Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

was created at the Institute in 1961.
The first Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

n electronic digital computer
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...

Vitosha, and the first Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

n electronic calculator
Calculator
An electronic calculator is a small, portable, usually inexpensive electronic device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic. Modern calculators are more portable than most computers, though most PDAs are comparable in size to handheld calculators.The first solid-state electronic...

Elka were constructed at the Institute in 1962-64.
The official Bulgarian system for the Romanization of Cyrillic alphabet was developed at the Institute in 1995, and codified by the Law of Transliteration in 2009.

Sources

Yanev, Nikolay. (1998). Fifty years of Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at BAS. Journal of BAS, No 3-4, 96-100. (in Bulgarian)
Andreev A., I. Derzhanski eds. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, founded 1947. Sofia: Multiprint Ltd., 2007. 64 pp. (Bilingual publication in Bulgarian and English) ISBN 978-954-8986-27-4

External links

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