Cellular Automata, Mainframes, Maple, Mathematica and Computer Science in Tallinn Research Group

Abstract

Originally formed in 1970, the Tallinn Research Group (TRG), was originally focused mainly on researches in the field of homogeneous structures (Cellular Automata). Meanwhile, in the aftermath, these researches and other TRG creative activity were often and for quite long periods of time interspersed with applied researches and development in other fields, such as development of system and application software for mainframes and personal computers of various types; statistics; development of departmental and republican automated management systems; computer mathematics systems that focus, first of all, on systems such as Maple and Mathematica, with the development of software for them that extends the functionality of both systems (in the book links are given for free download of specified software); parallel processing of information; preparation and publication of a series of monographs, books, textbooks, articles and university courses in these and some other fields (for freeware access in the book links are given on our book publications on general statistics theory, cellular automata, Maple and Mathematica systems; each book is archived, including its cover and book block in pdf–format). This book presents a somewhat expanded excursion into the creative activities of the TRG in 1970–2022 with a focus on researches and development in such main fields as mainframes, personal computers, general statistics theory, issues of parallel information processing and computing, computer mathematics systems, programming, automated control systems, mathematical developmental biology, some mathematical problems in the theory of cellular automata. At the same time, certain our results of researches related to the theory of classical cellular automata with the representation of our standpoint on the main stages of the formation of the cellular automata theory as an independent direction in the automata theory are presented in the most detail. The book may be of certain interest as a retrospective point of view on the development of the above areas in the USSR(primarily in the ESSR) and the republics of the former USSR. The book is equipped with a fairly extensive bibliography on the issues under consideration.