Mark Burgin

Given name	Mark
Family name	Burgin
Citation name	Burgin, M.
Date of birth	1946
Date of death	2023
Knowledge Domains of expertise	00, 02, 03, 06, 15, 30, 38, 3b, 51
Country of residence	us

Mark Burgin (1946-2023; M.A. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Moscow State University and Doctor of Science in Logic and Philosophy from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) was a Professor at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA; at the Institute of Education, Kiev; at International Solomon University, Kiev; at Kiev State University, Ukraine; and was a Director of the Assessment Laboratory, Research Center of Science, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He was Chief Editor of the International Journal Integration: Mathematical Theory and Applications, the International Journal Information, and Associative Editor of the International Journal on Computers and their Applications.

Dr. Burgin carried out research, published, and taught courses in mathematics, computer science, information sciences, artificial intelligence, logic, psychology, education, social sciences, and methodology of science. Dr. Burgin authorized and co-authorized more than 500 papers and 20 books. Among his very broad scientific production is worth to mention his book Theory of Information. Fundamentality, Diversity and Unification (World Scientific Publishing, 2010), which sets groundings for a research on General Theory of Information as formal foundations for a unifying approach to information.