Bibliographic record
Abstract
The first volume of Libertas Mathematica was issued in the Summer of 1981. It contains papers authored by mathematicians of Romanian descent, with the single exception of an author, associated with us, born in the former Soviet Union. The decision to start the publication of this journal in the Diaspora came after we realized that the number of expatriate mathematicians from Eastern Europe, who had left their countries between 1950-1980, had reached impressive numbers. Most of them obtained new positions in the universities of Western Europe and North America (U.S. and Canada), but some found a new life in Israel, South America, Africa, Australia or New Zealand. Practically, they spread over all continents, and this is true even for those leaving Romania. As a member of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Science, I had the idea to put the publication of Libertas Mathematica under the auspices of this institution, which reunited at the time a good number of academics, writers, artists and other intellectuals of Romanian extraction. My proposal presented to the General Assembly of the Academy, at the Annual Congress of 1979, received a warm reception from the members, and I was entrusted with the publication of the Libertas Mathematica (without financial support from the Academy). Having the formal approval for publication, as well as some promises coming from colleagues who were already in the Western World, the year 1980 was dedicated to the organizational procedures and gathering of manuscripts for the first volume. The first action started in January 1980, at the AMS Annual Meeting, held in San Antonio. Taking into consideration the facts that caused the migration of so many mathematicians from Romania towards other countries, I have collected 100 signatures from members of the AMS, present at the meeting, on a protest letter addressed to the President of Romania, for the destruction of the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, together with its branches in Iasi and Cluj-Napoca. Well over 150 researchers in mathematics had been effectively chased from their positions and assigned other positions in various institutions, in many cases unrelated to research activities. I had been charged by the Department of Education in Bucharest, to perform the operation of dismantling the group in Iasi (some 25
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.017 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.007 | 0.016 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.051 | 0.073 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".