See here an autobiography he wrote for his 50th birthday, which was published in:
A.Koslow and A.Buchsbaum (eds), The Road to Universal Logic, Volume 1 - The Road to Universal Logic, Volume 2
Papers (average length: 15 pages) on a wide range of topics are welcome, reflecting the diversity of the work of JYB. Send your paper by April 15th, 2025 to one of the editors of the book (if you need a few more weeks, it's OK).
If you were not able to send your paper on time, don't worry! There will be a 2nd Volume. The deadline is November 30, 2025. You can submit for the 8th UNILOG an abstract for a talk corresponding to the paper that you will send for the Festschrift. See here how to proceed. And after the UNILOG, there will the prepartion of a 3rd Volume with deadline January 31st, 2026. You can contact Ioannis Vandoulakis: i.vandoulakis@gmail.com
The editors of the book are Tatiana Denisova, Katarzyna Gan-Krzywoszyńska, Piotr Leśniewski, Caroline Pires Ting and Ioannis Vandoulakis. The book will be published in the book series SUL Studies in Universal Logic (Springer Nature). Books of the series are on-line and in-print and are indexed in the Book Citation Index by Clarivate, company which is managing the impact factor system. You will receive a free printed copy of the book.
In case you write your paper in Word, it has to look as much as possible as paper published in a book of the SUL series, see a sample example here, and there how the paper was previously prepared in Word.
Note in particular the following:
🔴 First page: Title (avoid a lenghty title, but you can put a subtitle, in a separtate line), Author Name (no affiliation here), Abstract, Keywords (from 3 to 9), MSC.
🔴 Abstract: 100 to 300 words in one block. The abstract is, after the title, the first idea readers have of the paper, so it often determines whether they will read the paper. The abstract should be informative and promote understanding of the value and contents of the paper. It should not include bibliographical references.
🔴 Sections: Numbering / Titles. Avoid to have a first section called "Introduction" and a last section called "Conclusion", use your imagination to find better names for these sections related to the topic of the paper. Abstract must not be repeated in the introduction / first section or in the conclusion / last section.
🔴 Bibliography: References are numbered in alphabetical order, only the number, e.g. [1], shoud appear in the text. If you want to refer to specific pages: (see [1], p.9) or (see [1], pp.18-19).
Example of a reference to a paper in a journal:
[48] A.Tarski, “Truth and proof”, Scientific American, 1969, pp.63-77.
[17] G.Birkhoff, “Universal algebra”, in G.-C. Rota and J. S. Oliveira (eds.), Selected Papers on Algebra and Topology by Garret Birkhoff, Birkhäuser, Basel, 1977, pp.111-115.
Example of reference to a book:
[26] G.Boole, An investigation of the laws of thought on which are founded the mathematical theories of logic and probabilities, MacMillan, London, 1854
🔴 After the bibliography: Name of the author + Affiliation + Email