Valentin Bura

Valentin Bura is a Romanian Author, Journalist, Mathematician and occasional Computer Scientist, who is known to have been flirting with the Guild of Musicians for a few decades.

Rather than saying "I know I know nothing," he's actually fond of saying "What I do not know, there's no way I can know."

Born and raised in Romania, educated tertiary in New Zealand, has been raised speaking Romanian yet spent half of his life in English-speaking environments.

Valentin B. Bura is literary influenced by Franz Kafka, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Henry Miller, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Michel Foucault, Emile Zola, Marcel Proust, Henri Bergson, Fyodor Dostoievski, and other historians of "the Imaginary," writers of Magical Realism, and investigators of themes specific to the Naturalism genre in Literature.

In Mathematics, Valentin works in Number Theory, Algebra and the Theory of Computation, especially in Computational Complexity.

While an undergraduate student of Software Engineering, a degree which he abandoned after two years, Bura distinguished himself with the design of a highly minimal Arithmetic Logic Unit.

Valentin Bura is a Buddhist, total abstainer from Alcohol, and has vowed chastity, as part of his obedience to the Ten Precepts of Buddhism. He has not vowed poverty.

Valentin is known to take month-long breaks working on unsolved problems in Mathematics. He has proposed explicit solutions to two Millenium Problems in the field, the Riemann Hypothesis and P =? NP. Nowadays he is struggling hard to understand the Collatz Conjecture, which he finds quite hard to grasp.

He believes important Politics to be found in grassroots politics, mostly, especially within the social and business infrastructures. Hence the need for people to be informed correctly, and for all forms of demagogy to be left in History's garbage.

Valentin is an expert in Mindfulness and practices this method approx. 90% of the time he spends being awake.

Valentin Bura earnestly recommends the more serious facets of Buddhist practice to young adults in their mid-thirties, and older, and recommends calming exercises to younger practitioners, with an actual emphasis on Martial Arts and other rigorous "rigid-surface" and "disciplining" techniques.

Valentin B. Bura also highly recommends the study of Pure Mathematics and Analytical Philosophy, such that younger adults do not make categorial mistakes in their lives, and elsewhere..