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Szabolcs Mikulas (1966-2023)

Szabolcs Mikulas (1966-2023)

With deep sorrow we announce that Szabolcs Mikulás died on 27th June 2023. He 
was 57, and had been beset by cancer for the last three years.

Szabolcs will be very well known to many in the logic community. He took his 
first degree, in Mathematics and Philosophy, in 1990 at Eötvös Loránd 
University, Budapest. His doctoral thesis "Taming Logics” (1995) was in 
Algebraic Logic under the joint supervision of Hajnal Andréka and Johan van 
Benthem, at ILLC Amsterdam. The thesis is available on request from r.hirsch at 
ucl.ac.uk (see also https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01066355 for 
related work). It has been hugely influential in subjects ranging from 
linguistics to algebras of relations, and continues to be the basis of current 
investigations into relational representability, which corresponds to (lack of) 
provability in the Lambek Calculus. Szabolcs had made a recent breakthrough, by 
proving the failure of the finite representation property for representable 
ordered residuated semigroups (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.11685.pdf). As 
recently as May, he was working with PhD students on closely related research.

Szabolcs worked at King’s College London from 1996, and then at Birkbeck 
College London from 2000 until 2022, as a Lecturer and (from 2011) Senior 
Lecturer. He published nearly fifty research papers, many with co-authors, on 
subjects including algebras of relations, temporal logic, relevance logic, and 
databases.

The last 20 years were the happiest of Szabolcs’s life. He was lucky enough to 
find a true soulmate, Nataša Perović, who cherished and loved him right through 
to the end.
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