Alexey Lyapunov

Alexei Andreevich Lyapunov (Russian Алексей Андреевич Ляпунов, English transcription Alexey Lyapunov; born September 25, 1911 in Moscow, † June 23, 1973 ) was a Russian scientist and mathematician. He is considered the founder of cybernetics and pioneer of computer science in the Soviet Union.

Lyapunov studied from 1928 Mathematics at the Moscow State University and conducted research from 1932 under Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin with measure theory, real functions and descriptive set theory. From 1934 he worked at the Steklov Institute. He also taught as a professor at the Moscow Artillery Academy. In the early 1950s he took over the programming group in the Department of Applied Mathematics of the Steklov Institute, later Keldysh Institute ( led by Mstislav Keldysh Vsyevolodovitch ). He organized the first seminar on cybernetics in the Soviet Union at the Moscow State University when it was still partially denigrated by officials in the Soviet Union as a reactionary pseudoscience. In 1961 he went to the Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk ( today Sobolev Institute ), where he founded the Department of Cybernetics. He also founded the Cybernetics Institute at the University of Novosibirsk and the Institute of Hydrodynamics of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences (now Institute Lawrentijew ).

He also dealt with mathematical biology and linguistics.

In 1996 he received the computer with other Pioneer Award and he received the Order of Lenin.

He was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences since 1964.