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Alexey Lyapunov | |
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| Born | Alexey Andreyevich Lyapunov (1911-10-08)October 8, 1911 |
| Died | June 23, 1973(1973-06-23) (aged 61) Moscow,Soviet Union |
| 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 ofcomputer science. One of the founders ofSoviet cybernetics, Lyapunov was member of theAcademy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and a specialist in the fields of real function theory, mathematical problems ofcybernetics,set theory,programming theory,mathematical linguistics, andmathematical biology.
ComposerSergei Lyapunov, mathematicianAleksandr Lyapunov, and philologistBoris Lyapunov were his close relatives.
In 1928, Lyapunov enrolled atMoscow State University to study mathematics, and in 1932 he became a student ofNikolai Luzin. Under his mentorship, Lyapunov began his research indescriptive set theory. He became world-wide known for his theorem on the range of an atomless vector-measure in finite dimensions, now called the Lyapunov Convexity Theorem.
From 1934 until the early 1950s, Lyapunov was on the staff of theSteklov Institute of Mathematics. WhenMstislav Keldysh organized the Department of Applied Mathematics (now the M.V. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics) he suggested Lyapunov to lead its work on programming.
In 1954 A.A. Lyapunov was invited byAnatoly Kitov (scientific director of the Computing Center No. 1 of the USSR Ministry of Defense) to this computing center as head of the laboratory. A.A. Lyapunov worked at this military computing center until 1960.
In 1961, Lyapunov moved to the Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Division of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (now theSobolev Institute of Mathematics), where he founded the department of cybernetics. AtNovosibirsk State University, he founded the Department of Theoretical Cybernetics and the Laboratory of Cybernetics at the Institute of Hydrodynamics of the Siberian Division of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (now the Lavrentiev Institute of Hydrodynamics) which he led until the end of his life.
In 1964, Lyapunov was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and joined the Division of Mathematics.
He was awarded theOrder of the Red Star in 1944,Order of the Badge of Honour in 1953, twoOrders of the Red Banner of Labour (1956 and 1967), andOrder of Lenin in 1971. In 1996, he was awarded theIEEE Computer Society'sComputer Pioneer Award.
