Biographical Note

My name is Dainis Zeps and I have lived all my life in Latvia. My first professional education I received at Latvian University, 1972, in specialty of theoretical physics, and as a physicist I started to work afterwards, being mostly engaged with programming, but reentering Latvian University once more already as a researcher, I turned to combinatorial mathematics, graph theory, which is my professional orientation up to now. In 1980 I became active member of Lutheran church, becoming student of Lutheran Seminary at 1986. In what followed I didn’t succeed much as student directly there, but became teacher of Biblical languages there. When after Soviet regime the Theological faculty was revived at Latvian University, I taught five languages there, Greek (Koine), Hebrew, Latin, Biblical Aramaic and Classical Syriac. I was ordained as priest too, but not with any wide practice as usual pastor, but mostly became engaged in the new translation of the Bible in Latvian, translating as a sequence 20 books from Greek New Testament and two books, Tobit and Judith, from Deuterocanonical books, and taking part in the text revision committee of this new translation. Now I am leading the interdisciplinary group of scientists at Latvian University dealing with Science and Religion dialogue.

Since 2005 I have been actively writing articles about mathematics and theoretical physics on, what seems to me, original ideas of connection of the principle of life, pertaining to the indivisibility of the life in the nature, (vita principalis in Latin) to physics and mathematics. I am in the firm belief that we, homines sapientes, don’t understand the world around us but receive, from God, abilities to act in assembling, copying technical inventions and instruments, instrumental knowledge in form of tools of investigations, which serve as a basis for successful development of sciences, technologies, and other fields including religion. I say – from God – because we don’t know actually from where all this is given to us or how all this, taken together with the indivisibility of the life, work. Why are we so weak at understanding? We make too many errors, relying on false assumptions, and because of this simple reason all what should have been our knowledge actually may qualify itself only as too little next to fallacy. Sciences go around this obstacle by defining their own methodologies within which results may be rechecked and proven. As a result, actual gain of all sciences are instruments, but not understanding whatsoever. In other words, we are successful so far only in discovering ever new abilities, because we ignore the indivisibility of the life via knowledge but not by action. My view is best expressed in articles “Our Ability to Research Comes Before Understanding of What We Research”, JCER, Vol 1, No 2 (2010), and “Quanta Mathematica Instrumentalis!”, Prespacetime Journal, Vol 2, No 4 (2011).