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Aleksandr Lyapunov

1857 - 1918

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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Ляпуно́в, 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1857 – 3 November 1918) was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksandr Lyapunov has received more than 328,384 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Aleksandr Lyapunov is the 170th most popular mathematician (down from 148th in 2019), the 376th most popular biography from Russia (down from 342nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Mathematician.

Aleksandr Lyapunov is most famous for his work on stability theory. Lyapunov's theorem states that if a dynamical system is stable, then it has at least one positive Lyapunov exponent.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Aleksandr Lyapunov ranks 170 out of 1,004. Before him are James Joseph Sylvester, Pierre Bouguer, George Pólya, Felix Hausdorff, René Thom, and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre. After him are Camille Jordan, Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Marcel Grossmann, Jost Bürgi, Jean-Pierre Serre, and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Aleksandr Lyapunov ranks 34. Before him are Joseph Babinski, Karl Pearson, George Hendrik Breitner, Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal, Otto von Below, and Edward Emerson Barnard. After him are Max Klinger, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, 12th Dalai Lama, Antoni Grabowski, Ida Tarbell, and Cécile Chaminade. Among people deceased in 1918, Aleksandr Lyapunov ranks 44. Before him are István Tisza, Eusebi Güell, Andrew Dickson White, Anna Dostoevskaya, Emil Jellinek, and Stepan Shaumian. After him are Julius Wellhausen, Koloman Moser, Sai Baba of Shirdi, Ivan Cankar, John Bauer, and César Ritz.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aleksandr Lyapunov ranks 376 out of 3,761. Before him are Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848), Pavel Nakhimov (1802), Viktor Kulikov (1921), Henri Troyat (1911), Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797), and Eduard Khil (1934). After him are Chung Il-kwon (1917), Aleksandr Karelin (1967), Nikolai Leskov (1831), Basil Fool for Christ (1468), Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822), and Vladimir Kryuchkov (1924).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Aleksandr Lyapunov ranks 11. Before him are Andrey Kolmogorov (1903), Alexander Friedmann (1888), Grigori Perelman (1966), Christian Goldbach (1690), Leonid Kantorovich (1912), and Andrey Markov (1856). After him are Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909), Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943), Lev Pontryagin (1908), Pavel Alexandrov (1896), Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922), and Igor Ansoff (1918).

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