Alexander Letov Biography

Born on November 11 24 in the village of Khomutovo, Kolomensky district, Moscow province now - Kolomensky district, Moscow region. Who would have thought that the most perfect aristocrat Alexander Mikhailovich Letov with his almost eternal butterfly, a world-famous scientist, began working life for ordinary workers. However, already in the year, A. Letov is graduating from the Mechanical and Mathematics faculty of Moscow State University named after M.

Lomonosov and GO for a year becomes an engineer-research engineer of the research institute of the People’s Commissariat during the Great Patriotic War during the period from a year, Alexander Mikhailovich worked as the head of the workshop of one of the defense plants of the People’s Commissariat of the USSR Aviation Industry. For a year, A. Letov was the head of the laboratory of one of the research institutes of the USSR Ministry of Aviation Industry.

During this period, he received a number of interesting theoretical and important practical results in the field of studying the dynamics of autopilots introduced in Soviet aviation technology. Dzerzhinsky introduced a new staff of the Academy. Alexander Mikhailovich Letov was invited to the department of reactive weapons and reactive equipment management devices, where, together with S.

Osovets V. Ilyin and V. Semenov, he developed a number of profiling courses on missile control systems. In the year, Alexander Mikhailovich becomes a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences. The period - the fundamental results of A. Letov in the field of nonlinear systems of automatic control, published by him in a well -known monograph of the year, also include the period - years.

In the year, A. Letov goes to work at the Institute of Automation and Telemechanics now - the Institute for the Problems of Management of the Named after V. Trapeznikov of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Here he was a senior researcher, and even the deputy director, but he was remembered most of all as the head of the laboratory of mathematical methods of management theory.

Working at the institute, Alexander Mikhailovich proved himself as the largest specialist in the field of optimal management theory. In the early xs, he published a cycle of work on the analytical design of regulators. This problem has been further developed in the works of a number of authors in our country and abroad. Letov first pointed out the deep connection of the problem of optimal regulation and the Lyapunov functions method.

At the same time, A. Letov, as the head of the laboratory, paid great attention to the application of the theoretical results to solve important practical problems. Here are some of the examples of such applications: optimizing the process of continuous steel casting, choosing the optimal law of control of aircraft trajectories, the optimal distribution of water resources in the Volga River basin.

The results of scientific research by A. Letov are widely known in our country both abroad and published in more than scientific articles and reports and two books, one of which was translated and published in the USA and China. Being the president of this organization, A. Since the year he was the deputy chairman of the National Committee of the USSR for automatic management and participated in the preparation and conduct of a number of international symposia and scientific meetings.

Letov repeatedly and with honor represented Soviet science abroad. Alexander Mikhailovich devoted a lot of time to the training of new scientific personnel and the promotion of the achievements of science. For many years, he was a professor at the Department of Dynamics and Department of Aircraft "Moscow Aviation Institute named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze, and in the year he headed the department of mathematical methods of management at the University of Friendship of Peoples named after Patrice Lumen.

Letov prepared more than highly qualified specialists in the field of management theory, under his leadership 35 dissertations were performed. It should be noted that A. he was awarded the orders of the Red Banner of Labor, the "Person of Honor", medals.