Aleksandr Lyapunov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aleksandr Lyapunov

Russian mathematician

Date of Birth: 25-May-1857

Place of Birth: Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 03-Nov-1918

Profession: physicist, mathematician

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (Russian: ??????´??? ????´?????? ??????´?, pronounced [?l??k'sandr m??'xaj??v??t? l??p?'nof]; June 6 [O.S.
May 25] 1857 – November 3, 1918) was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist.
His surname is sometimes romanized as Ljapunov, Liapunov, Liapounoff or Ljapunow.
He was the son of astronomer Mikhail Lyapunov and the brother of pianist and composer Sergei Lyapunov. Lyapunov is 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.