Mathematician:Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov

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Mathematician

Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist, known for his development of the stability theory of a dynamical system, as well as for his many contributions to mathematical physics and probability theory.


Nationality

Russian


History

  • Born: 6 June 1857 in Yaroslavl, Russia
  • Died: 3 November 1918 in Odessa, Russia


Theorems and Definitions

Results named for Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov can be found here.


Publications

  • 1884: On the stability of ellipsoidal figures of equilibrium of a rotating fluid
  • 1892: The general problem of the stability of motion
  • 1897: Sur certaines questions qui se rattachent au problème de Dirichlet
  • 1901: Nouvelle forme du théorème sur la limite de probabilité
  • 1901: Sur un théorème du calcul des probabilités
  • 1902: Sur une série dans la théorie des équations différentielles linéaires du second ordre à coefficients périodiques
  • 1903: Recherches dans la théorie de la figure des corps célestes
  • 1904: Sur l'équation de Clairaut et les équations plus générales de la théorie de la figure des planètes


Also known as

In Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Ляпуно́в.

His name can be seen transliterated as Liapunov.


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