RESEARCH PROFILE

My research is concerned with Empirical Modelling and with the history of ideas (especially those ideas involved in mathematics and computing). Sometimes I manage to combine these two interests. I have for many years been interested in the work of Bernard Bolzano and have had a substantial volume of translations published in 2004 by Oxford University Press as 'The Mathematical Works of Bernard Bolzano'. The volume was reprinted with significant revisions in 2006.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Russ, S.(2011) 'The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences' Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 36 (3), 209 - 213 (0308-0188) [article]
• Beynon, M. and Russ, S.(2008) 'Experimenting with computing' Journal of Applied Logic 6 (4), 476 - 489 (1570-8683) [article]
• Russ S B,Beynon W M McCarty W, (2005) 'Human Computing - Modelling with Meaning ' Literary And Linguistic Computing 21 (2), 141 - 157 (0268-1145)
• Russ S B(2004) The Mathematical Works of Bernard Bolzano (019 853930 4) Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Beynon W M, Rasmequan S, Russ S(2002) 'A New Paradigm for computer-based decision support' Decision Support Systems 33 127 - 142 (0167-9236)

RESEARCH DEGREES SUPERVISED

• From analogy-making to modelling: the history of analog computing as a modelling technology, Date of Completion: 2008
• Enclosing the Field: from 'Mechanization of Thought Processes' to 'Autonomics', Date of Completion: 2002
• Empirical Modelling for Participative Business Process Re-engineering, Date of Completion: 2001
• An Approach to Computer-based Knowledge Representation for the Business Environment using Empirical Modelling, Date of Completion: 2001