Died 1918-11-03.
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. He was the son of the astronomer Mikhail Lyapunov and the brother of the pianist and composer Sergei Lyapunov.
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Born 25 May 1857 · Died 3 November 1918 · Q310788
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Died 1918-11-03.
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The Kharkov edition was translated to French and republished by the University of Toulouse: 'Probleme General de la Stabilite du Mouvement, Par M
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Took part to the Fourth International Mathematical Congress in Rome
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After being elected acting member of the Academy of Science as well as ordinary professor in the Faculty of Applied Mathematics of the university
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Career landmark: chairperson (1899–1902).
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Make it possible to define the stability of sets of ordinary differential equations
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Studied at Imperial St. Petersburg University, Doctor (1885).
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Lyapunov became privatdozent and was proposed to accept the chair of mechanics at Kharkov University, where he went the same year
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With the title On the stability of ellipsoidal forms of rotating fluids
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Lyapunov received a gold medal for a work on hydrostatics
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Two years after Andrey Markov who had also graduated at Saint Petersburg University
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Studied at Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Saint Petersburg University (1876–1880).
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Lyapunov entered the Physico-Mathematical department at the University of Saint Petersburg, but after one month he transferred to the Mathematics department of the university
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Studied at Nizhny Novgorod Gymnasium (1870–1876).
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His mother moved with her sons to Nizhny Novgorod, where he started the third class of the gymnasium
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Aleksandr Lyapunov was educated by his uncle R
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Born 1857-05-25.
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