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2021 , Volume 26, ¹ 5, p.106-118

Shokin Y.I., Fedotov A.M., Barakhnin V.B.

On the family and scientific ties of A.A. Lyapunov, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences

This article is dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the birth of one of the founders of Russian cybernetics, the Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Alexei Andreevich Lyapunov, and examines his family connections and scientific contacts.

A.A. Lyapunov was a representative of the noble family of the Lyapunovs, a descendant of Grigory Petrovich Lyapunov who was a prominent politician of the Time of Troubles, bravely denounced False Dmitry I and was executed by the Impostor. In turn, according to the “Russian genealogical book”, G.P. Lyapunov was a descendant of Rurik in the 27th generation through the line of Konstantin Galitsky, the younger brother of Alexander Nevsky.

The article shows that the encyclopedic knowledge of Aleksey Andreevich Lyapunov was founded yet by family upbringing: the Lyapunov family was closely related by kinship ties with many famous families of the Russian intellectual elite, who created in fact the national science of the late 19th — early 20th centuries: the Sechenovs, the Krylovs, the Kapitsas, the Nametkins.

Further in the article, a detailed analysis of the scientific genealogy of A.A. Lyapunov with the usage of the “Mathematical Genealogy” project is carried out. In this “Genealogy” there are the names of many of the greatest mathematicians of continental Europe of the 17th – second half of the 19th centuries, as well as the outstanding astronomers, physicists, chemists, philosophers, theologians of Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism and Lutheranism. On one of the lines, the Lyapunov’s scientific genealogy can be traced up to the Persian mathematicians of the 12th century.

In addition, the scientific collaboration of A.A. Lyapunov, which is recorded in the Collaboration Distance Project, was analyzed. It was established that the distance of co-authorship of A.A. Lyapunov, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, to the most famous mathematicians and theoretical physicists of the 20th–21st centuries, including almost all the Abel Prize laureates and a number of Nobel Prize winners in physics, is 3–5.

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Keywords: Alexey Andreevich Lyapunov, the Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, scientometrics, scientific genealogy, distance of co-authorship

doi: 10.25743/ICT.2021.26.5.009

Author(s):
Shokin Yuriy Ivanovich
Dr. , Academician RAS, Professor
Position: Scientific Director of the Institute
Office: Federal Research Center for Information and Computational Technologies
Address: 630090, Russia, Novosibirsk, Ac. Lavrentiev ave., 6
Phone Office: (383) 334 91 10
E-mail: shokin@ict.nsc.ru
SPIN-code: 6442-4180

Fedotov Anatolii Mikhailovich
Dr. , Correspondent member of RAS, Professor
Position: Deputy Director on science
Office: Institute of Computational Technologies SB RAS
Address: 630090, Russia, Novosibirsk, Ac. Lavrentiev ave., 6
Phone Office: (383) 330 73 51
E-mail: fedotov@ict.nsc.ru

Barakhnin Vladimir Borisovich
Dr. , Associate Professor
Position: Leading research officer
Office: Federal Research Center for Information and Computational Technologies
Address: 630090, Russia, Novosibirsk, Ac. Lavrentiev ave, 6
Phone Office: (383) 330 78 26
E-mail: bar@ict.nsc.ru
SPIN-code: 1541-0448

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Shokin Y.I., Fedotov A.M., Barakhnin V.B. On the family and scientific ties of A.A. Lyapunov, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences // Computational technologies. 2021. V. 26. ¹ 5. P. 106-118
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