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World Logic Day was celebrated at the Mathematical Center in Akademgorodok

On January 14, the celebration of the World Logic Day took place at MCA. The date January 14 was chosen as a tribute to the outstanding mathematicians Kurt Gödel (died January 14, 1978) and Alfred Tarski (born January 14, 1901). World Logic Day was proclaimed by the General Conference of UNESCO in November 2019.

As part of the celebration of the Day of Logic, an international online seminar  was held, organized by the Mathematical Center in Akademgorodok and Nazarbayev University (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan). The seminar was attended by 50 people from Russia, Kazakhstan, the USA, Bulgaria, Great Britain and Germany.

RAS academician Sergey S. Goncharov (Institute of Mathematics SB RAS), Professor  (the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the USA) and Scientific Secretary of , Professor  (City University of New York, USA) presented their talks during the workshop.

Sergey Goncharov says:

In connection with the development of information technologies, algorithmic methods are becoming increasingly important in human activity. Realizing the leading role of logic in digital technologies, UNESCO declared World Logic Day. The celebration of this day aims not only to support scientific research, but also to expand public understanding of the role of logic in technology and innovation. In educational activities, the special importance of logic as the basis of scientific thinking should be emphasized.

The modern theory of models, which is the basis for the theory of ontologies in computer science, was created by Professor Alfred Tarski and the outstanding Soviet mathematician, academician Anatoly I. Maltsev. It should be noted that it was A. I. Maltsev who introduced the teaching of mathematical logic at ³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø. In the works of academician Yury L. Yershov and his students, a number of important areas at the intersection of mathematical logic and computer science have been developed: the theory of constructive models, the theory of numbering, semantic programming, and the theory of computable functionals. 

The organizer of the event  comments:

Fundamental results obtained at the Siberian School of Algebra and Logic are recognized all over the world. Last year, the MCA held a  dedicated to the World Logic Day. As part of the round table, our leading experts discussed the prospects for the development of logic and its applications. Note that, with the support of MCA, work in modern promising areas is underway: the connection of constructive models with online algorithms, polynomial computability in solutions of partial differential equations. This year, at the online workshop, the world's leading scientists made presentations on important new results in the field of mathematical logic and the theory of computability.