1. Aleksey Krylov was a pioneer of the gyrocompass, being the first to create a full theory of it.
10 Facts About Aleksey Krylov
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Aleksey Krylov was a talented and promising student and after graduating ahead-of-schedule from the Academy in 1890, stayed on as mathematics and ship-theory lecturer.
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In 1898 Aleksey Krylov received a Gold Medal from the British Royal Institution of Naval Architects, the first time the prize was awarded to a foreigner.
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Aleksey Krylov created a theory of damping of ship rolling and pitching, and was the first to propose gyroscopic damping which now is the most common way of damping the roll.
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Aleksey Krylov was well known for his sharp tongue and quick wits.
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Aleksey Krylov's put downs to government and Duma officials were legendary.
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Aleksey Krylov was concerned with efficient computations and, as a computational scientist, he counts the work as a number of separate numerical multiplications, something not very typical for a 1931 mathematical paper.
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Aleksey Krylov begins with a careful comparison of the existing methods that include the worst-case-scenario estimate of the computational work in the Jacobi method.
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Aleksey Krylov is buried in the Volkovo Cemetery, not far from the physiologist Ivan Pavlov and the chemist Dmitri Mendeleev.
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Aleksey Krylov was awarded the Stalin Prize, three Orders of Lenin, Hero of Socialist Labor, and was an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.