Background
Lerner, Alexander Yakob was born on September 7, 1913 in Vinnitza, Ukraine. Came to Israel, 1988.
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The development of science consists not only of deepening and widening the already established scientific disciplines but also depends on the emergence of new ones. The emergence and development of new sciences is influenced primarily by two factors: isolation and generalisation. Isolation of scientific disciplines is due to the discovery of new objects of investigation and the emergence of specific scientific trends. This leads to the study of a relatively narrow class of objects which are characterised by their specific approach to both the formulation and the solution of problems. Examples of this type of specific scientific diSciplines include, for instance, chemistry of high molecular compounds and the theory of electrical machines, which are both devoted to the study of a relatively narrow field. In addition there are the more general scientific disciplines, whose characteristics are that they are created for the purpose of studying such natural phenomena as occur in a very wide class of objects. Disciplines of this type are, for instance, the theory of dimensions and the theory of similarity, the theory of dynamic systems and thermodynamics. The very general, as opposed to the very specific, sciences tend by their nature to be more theoretical and depend much more on the language, mathematical or otherwise, used to describe them.
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Lerner, Alexander Yakob was born on September 7, 1913 in Vinnitza, Ukraine. Came to Israel, 1988.
Lerner graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1938, and received a Doctor of Philosophy from the same institution in 1940.
During the World World War II, Lerner served as the chief engineer of the Central Autonomous Laboratory at the Soviet Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy in Moscow. He was a leading practitioner of cybernetics. lieutenant is a branch of science that deals with human control systems like the brain and nervous systems where they interconnect with complex electronic systems
Also, his mathematical equations were used in forecasting supply and demand for vital materials like steel, or allocating scarce resources.
Lerner was the first prominent Soviet scientist to seek to emigrate to Israel. His request was denied, and resulted in the sudden loss of his positions and privileges.
In 1977, a letter was published in the Soviet newspaper Izvestiya calling Lerner "the leader of an espionage nest." His closest associates in the refusenik movement — Natan Sharansky, Vladimir Slepak and Ida Nudel — were arrested. Lerner accepted an appointment in the mathematics department at the Weizmann Institute of Science where he pursued a number of projects, including the development of an artificial heart and the construction of a mathematical model to predict the behavior of developed societies.
Lerner died in 2004 in Rehovot at the age of 90.
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Lerner became a member of the Soviet scientific and technological elite.
Son of Yakob David and Gitel Lerner. Widowed; children: Vladimir, Sophia.