About the works of Florentin Smarandache have been written a lot of books (he himself wrote dozens of books and articles regarding math, physics, literature, philosophy). Being a globally recognized personality in both mathematics (there are countless functions and concepts that bear his name) and literature, it is natural that the volume of writings about his research is huge. What we try to do with this encyclopedia is to gather together as much as we can both from Smarandache’s mathematical work and the works of many mathematicians around the world inspired by the Smarandache notions. We structured this book using numbered Definitions, Theorems, Conjectures, Notes and Comments, in order to facilitate an easier reading but also to facilitate references to a specific paragraph. We divided the Bibliography in two parts, Writings by Florentin Smarandache (indexed by the name of books and articles) and Writings on Smarandache notions (indexed by the name of authors). We treated, in this book, about 130 Smarandache type sequences, about 50 Smarandache type functions and many solved or open problems of number theory. We also have, at the end of this book, a proposal for a new Smarandache type notion, id est the concept of “a set of Smarandache-Coman divisors of order k of a composite positive integer n with m prime factors”, notion that seems to have promising applications, at a first glance at least in the study of absolute and relative Fermat pseudoprimes, Carmichael numbers and Poulet numbers. This encyclopedia is both for researchers that will have on hand a tool that will help them “navigate” in the universe of Smarandache type notions and for young math enthusiasts: many of them will be attached by this wonderful branch of mathematics, number theory, reading the works of Florentin Smarandache.

The books are published by Smarandache Notions Journal. It is an electronic and hard-copy journal of research in mathematics. Besides this, occasionally It publishes papers of research in physics, philosophy, literary essays and creation, linguistics, and art work. Initially the journal was called "Smarandache Function Journal". Since 1996 to present the original journal was extended to the "Smarandache Notions Journal". It is annually published in the United States by the American Research Press in 1000 copies and on the internet.

The Scientific Elements is an international book series, maybe with different subtitles. This series is devoted to the applications of Smarandache?s notions and to mathematical combinatorics. These are two heartening mathematical theories for sciences and can be applied to many fields. This book selects 12 papers for showing applications of Smarandache's notions, such as those of Smarandache multi-spaces, Smarandache geometries, Neutrosophy, etc. to classical mathematics, theoretical and experimental physics, logic, cosmology. Looking at these elementary applications, we can experience their great potential for developing sciences. 12 authors contributed to this volume: Linfan Mao, Yuhua Fu, Shenglin Cao, Jingsong Feng, Changwei Hu, Zhengda Luo, Hao Ji, Xinwei Huang, Yiying Guan, Tianyu Guan, Shuan Chen, and Yan Zhang.

The books are published by Smarandache Notions Journal. It is an electronic and hard-copy journal of research in mathematics. Besides this, occasionally It publishes papers of research in physics, philosophy, literary essays and creation, linguistics, and art work. Initially the journal was called "Smarandache Function Journal". Since 1996 to present the original journal was extended to the "Smarandache Notions Journal". It is annually published in the United States by the American Research Press in 1000 copies and on the internet.