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2 unusual facts about Nicolas Minorsky


Minorsky

Nicolas Minorsky (1885 – 1970), a Russian American control theory mathematician and applied scientist.

Nicolas Minorsky

In her memorial paper to Nicolas Minorsky published in the IEEE Transactions On Automatic Control, author Irmgard Flügge-Lotz stated that Minorsky's greatest contribution to the development of nonlinear mechanics in the U.S. was Minorsky's early recognition that important papers in the field were being published in the Soviet Union in a language that few American researchers could read.



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