Alexei Andreevich Lyapunov
Alexei Andrejewitsch Lyapunow ( Russian Алексе́й Андре́евич Ляпуно́в , English transcription Alexey Lyapunov ; born September 25, 1911 in Moscow ; † June 23, 1973 ibid) was a Russian computer scientist and mathematician. He is considered the founder of cybernetics and a pioneer of computer science in the Soviet Union.
Lyapunow studied mathematics at Lomonossow University from 1928 and researched from 1932 under Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Lusin with measure theory, real functions and descriptive set theory. From 1934 he was at the Steklow Institute . He also taught as a professor at the Moscow Artillery Academy. In the early 1950s he took over the programming group in the Applied Mathematics department of the Steklow Institute, later the Keldysh Institute (headed by Mstislav Vsevolodowitsch Keldysch ). He organized the first seminar on cybernetics in the Soviet Union at the Lomonosov University, when this was still officially denigrated in the Soviet Union as reactionary pseudoscience. In 1961 he went to the Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Department of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk (now the Sobolev Institute), where he founded the Cybernetics Department. He also founded the Cybernetics Institute at Novosibirsk University and the Institute of Hydrodynamics of the Siberian Department of the Academy of Sciences (now the Lavrentiev Institute).
He also dealt with mathematical biology and linguistics.
In 1996 he received the Computer Pioneer Award with others and he received the Order of Lenin .
He had been a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences since 1964 .
Lyapunov organized mathematics and physics classes for gifted children ( learned children's society ) in his house , in which Vladimir Arnold , among others, took part.
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- ↑ Tabachnikov, Foreword to Wladimir Arnold, Mathematical understanding of nature, AMS 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lyapunov, Alexei Andrejewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ляпуно́в, Алексе́й Андре́евич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian computer scientist and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1973 |
| Place of death | Moscow |