Alexey Lyapunov
Alexey Lyapunov | |
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| Born | Alexey Andreyevich Lyapunov October 8, 1911 |
| Died | June 23, 1973 (aged 61) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Known for | Cybernetics Programming theory |
| Awards | Order of Lenin Computer Pioneer Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematician Cybernetics |
| Institutions | Steklov Mathematical Institute Sobolev Institute of Mathematics Novosibirsk State University |
| Doctoral advisors | Nikolai Luzin Pyotr Novikov |
| Doctoral students | Andrey Yershov, Sergey Yablonsky, Rafail Krichevskii, Oleg Lupanov, Yuri Zhuravlyov |
Alexey Andreyevich Lyapunov (Russian: Алексе́й Андре́евич Ляпуно́в; 8 October 1911 – 23 June 1973) was a Soviet mathematician and an early pioneer of computer science. One of the founders of Soviet cybernetics, Lyapunov was member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and a specialist in the fields of real function theory, mathematical problems of cybernetics, set theory, programming theory, mathematical linguistics, and mathematical biology.