{"id":24697,"date":"2022-02-24T10:49:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T09:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wnst\/?p=24697"},"modified":"2022-07-15T13:17:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T11:17:33","slug":"nmp-michalbaczynski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wnst\/en\/2022\/02\/24\/nmp-michalbaczynski\/","title":{"rendered":"Science | My passion – Micha\u0142 Baczy\u0144ski, professor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SCIENCE | MY PASSION<\/span> According to the definition taken from the Polish Language Dictionary, science is complete human knowledge arranged into a system of problems, but also a set of ideas that constitute a systematic whole and comprise a specific research field. \n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″]\r\n <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″ el_class=”foto” css=”.vc_custom_1639391476373{background-color: #ededd5 !important;}”]\r\n Prof. MICHA\u0141 BACZY\u0143SKI<\/strong><\/span> \n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/p>\n \n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n Show publications<\/a><\/p>\n \n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″]\r\n As I sat down to write this article, I began to wonder if my professional career could have turned out differently and why I ended up becoming a scientist, and more formally, a \u201cresearch and didactic employee\u201d. In my search for answers, my memories go back to primary school. I had a very demanding maths teacher, with whom I later did my teaching apprenticeship as part of my studies. I remember my first minor success in the 7th grade, when I managed to solve some Olympic tasks at the blackboard, without any preparation. Then I decided to choose (probably) the best mathematical high school in Silesia, the so-called \u201cPik\u201d (currently Maria Sk\u0142odowska-Curie High School No. 8 in Katowice). And so in the 1980s, in the period after martial law, I joined the maths and physics class. Again, I was lucky and had amazing teachers who definitely learned us a lot (among my class graduates are medical professors, judges, scientists, engineers, etc.). Here, I would like to mention Mrs. Krystyna Sk\u00f3rnik, PhD, my maths teacher in the last two years of high school. She was also a research employee and then a long-time president of the Upper Silesian Department of the Polish Mathematical Society. She managed to introduce academic teaching in high school. Everyone interested in the subject could develop their passions, and the material we were working on at that time was partially identical to the material for the first year of mathematics studies. I must also mention computer science classes, where in the first year of high school we programmed on ZX Spectrum computers, writing, inter alia, algorithms and programmes based on the theories of Cramer or Kronecker-Capelli or… we wrote programmes that dealt cards in bridge, and they were later printed (at school it was forbidden to play cards, but not on printed hands!). Yes, in the first year of high school such topics were covered almost 40 years ago.<\/p>\n However, my professional career could have turned out quite differently. From the age of eight I was training tennis, and I won the Polish vice-championship in junior doubles just before my final exams. I was faced with a dilemma: what to do next in my life? However, it was 1989, the system was changed in Poland, clubs were closed, there was no money for trainings \u2013 these were not favorable conditions to continue with professional sports. Here I will quote a famous sports journalist, Bohdan Tomaszewski: \u201cTennis is not only an artistry of the game, it is also math. There are no miracles \u2013 you have to win the most important points, you have to defend setballs and matchballs.\u201d Perhaps this combination of sports and mathematics (and computer science) turned out to be good for me. As I once said in another interview: \u201cSport teaches humility in terms of both failures and victories \u2013 this must be learned, as well as discipline, this knowledge turns out to be necessary not only on the court, but also in scientific work and in life.\u201d<\/p>\n In such a socio-economic and political situation, the decision to study mathematics was actually rather obvious. And that\u2019s how I \u201clanded\u201d here, at the University of Silesia in Katowice, on applied mathematics. Another important event in my life was the purchase of our first IBM 386DX computer by my parents. I was in the second or third year of my studies at that time. This allowed me to write my master’s thesis that combined elements of mathematics and computer science. After the graduation, I was offered to stay at the university. At that time, you didn’t need to have an idea for a doctorate ready, as it is required now. My supervisor was J\u00f3zef Drewniak, PhD, DSc, the director of the IT department. I became interested in the research of multi-valued logical connectives, in particular implications with an infinite (continuous) set of values, which in present publications are called fuzzy implications. It is to Prof. Drewniak that I owe my adventure with fuzzy logic, which combines elements of mathematics and computer science. At the very thought of studying some fragment of the broadly understood artificial intelligence, shivers ran down my spine.<\/p>\n
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\nScience is also activity: learning and teaching.
\nPlease read the \u201cScience | My Passion\u201d series, where our researchers present their work and show that science and research process can really draw us in.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nInstitute of Mathematics,
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\nAt the beginning, an exceptional high school<\/span><\/h3>\n
Maybe sport…<\/span><\/h3>\n
Science, that is certain…<\/span><\/h3>\n
Does coincidence decide?<\/span><\/h3>\n