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Book Synopsis
- Part I: Personal Notes.- My writing.- Some personal remarks about Johann A. Makowsky.- The Swiss Connection.- From a Friend and Publisher.- From graph polynomials to the software industry Lessons from Janos.- Emancipatory Aspects of Learning and Teaching Mathematics.- Part II: Scientific Contributions.- Epsilon Calculus Provides Shorter Cut-Free Proofs.- Variations on a Theme of Makowsky.- Automatic structures and the problem of natural well-orderings.- On the Counting Complexity of the Cover Polynomial for Simple Graphs.- Polynomial Threshold Functions of Bounded Tree-Width: Some Explainability and Complexity Aspects.- Some Equalities are More Equal than Others.- On the bipartition polynomials for rooted caterpillars.- NP-completeness by first-order and quantifier-free interpretations and related topics.- Bounded languages over infinite alphabets.- Linear Algebraic Quantifiers.- A coarse Tutte polynomial for hypermaps.- Graph polynomials: some questions on the edge.- Pixelating relations and functions without adding substructures.- Reflection and Recurrence.- Provenance Analysis and Semiring Semantics for First-Order Logic.- Reversify any sequential algorithm.- Gentzen in the 3- and 4-valued jungle.- Characterizing Data Dependencies Then and Now.- On Consistency of Graphically Defined Specifications.- The path-bifurcation hierarchy does not collapse to ??1 in infinite abelian groups.- Data with Logical and Statistical constraints.- Relating Information and Knowledge.- Science and Practice of Modelling.- Graph Polynomials and Local Graph Operations.
