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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editors -- General Remark -- Perusing the Minds Behind Scientific Discoveries -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Living Versus Non-living Computers: Limits of Computation, Speed, and Storage -- 3 Reading Scientists -- 3.1 Making a Language Psychologically More Appealing and Easy for Commoners -- 3.2 A Highly Active Mind in a Sickly Body -- 3.3 4-in-1 with Critical Analyzing Power as the Common Factor -- 3.4 Newton of France Who Missed Acknowledging Predecessors' Contributions -- 3.5 A Shortest Living Teenage Giant and a Victim of Cruel Environment -- 3.6 A Longest Surviving Mathematical Genius for All Seasons -- 3.7 The Scientist of the 20th Century, Who Did Not Want to Live Longer Artificially -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Theories in Social Systems -- A General Framework for Individual and Social Choices -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Abelian Linearly Ordered Groups for Cardinal Pairwise Comparisons -- 2.1 Abelian Linearly Ordered Group -- 2.2 Cardinal Pairwise Comparison Matrices -- 2.3 Main Results About PCMs Over Alo-Groups -- 3 Riesz Spaces for Social Preferences -- 3.1 Riesz Spaces -- 3.2 On Collective Choice Rules for PCMs and Arrow's Axioms -- 3.3 On Social Welfare Function Features -- 4 Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- Nationality Board Diversity in Organizations: A Brief Review and Future Research Directions -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Brief Review on Theories, Methodology, and Findings Regarding Nationality Board Diversity in Organizations -- 2.1 Theoretical Frameworks -- 2.2 Indices -- 2.3 Results -- 3 Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Mathematical Modeling of Some Physical Phenomena Through Dynamical Systems -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Analysis Methods for Continuous Dynamical Systems -- 3 Phase Portraits of the Bi-Dimensional Linear Dynamical Systems.