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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov

Biography MathSciNet

Ph.D. St. Petersburg State University 1885

Dissertation: On Stability of Elliptic Equlibrium Forms of a Rotating Liquid

Mathematics Subject Classification: 76—Fluid mechanics

Advisor: Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev

Students:
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Name	School	Year	Descendants
Nikola Saltikov	Kharkiv State University	1905	29
Vladimir Steklov	Kharkiv State University	1901	879

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