✍ Scribed by F.J. Marcellán; Rafael J. Yáñez; Alejandro Zarzo
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
An international conference ''Special Functions, Information Theory and Mathematical Physics'' was organized on September 17-19, 2007 in Granada with lectures by his friends, colleagues and scientific collaborators. Some of the lectures are published in this volume together with other papers corresponding to several contributed talks. We are happy and honored to be guest editors of this special issue dedicated to our colleague and friend, whose contents reveal the broad and interdisciplinary character of the Jesús's scientific interest along his life.
A walk around our colleague's scientific career (see the short biographical notes below) makes it clear the wide and intense activities he has broached and overcome. What is the secret of a scientist who has been successfully involved in such an amount of relevant scientific projects? Certainly, at the heart of his outstanding accomplishments there is a strong intellectual curiosity and versatility, a swift and keen perception of the connection between physical and mathematical problems and, above all, seemingly inexhaustible energy resources even bigger than those of their current young collaborators and students.
Of his manifold activities as a referee, scientific adviser, committee member, . . . maybe one driving strand deserves special mention. It is the devoted and enduring commitment (''inasequible al desaliento'', we say in Spanish) with science and its development in our country (and beyond), fostering and promoting in any forum the creation of the essential infrastructure it requires, encouraging students and young researchers to take advantage of them and constantly instigating international scientific exchange.
Measuring scientific production as a function of time shows that Jesús's production rate and scientific activity are still increasing. So let us finally hope this fortunate trend can be extrapolated for many years to come, and we will be the grateful beneficiaries of many more enlightening contributions.
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