Mathematician:Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Ляпуно́в) was a 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

 * Lyapunov Equation
 * Lyapunov Exponent
 * Lyapunov Fractal
 * Lyapunov Function
 * Lyapunov Stability
 * Lyapunov's Stability Theorem
 * Lyapunov Time
 * Lyapunov's Central Limit Theorem
 * Lyapunov's Condition
 * Lyapunov–Malkin Theorem
 * Lyapunov-Schmidt Reduction

Books and Papers

 * 1992: The general problem of the stability of motion