| Personal data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Aizerman |
| Name | Mark |
| Patronym | Aronovich |
| Birth year | 1913 |
| Birth month | 5 |
| Birth day | 24 |
| Birth place | Dvinsk |
| Death year | 1992 |
| Death month | 5 |
| Death day | 8 |
| Death place | Russia |
| Sex | M |
Aizerman (Eisermann) Mark Aronovich (24 May 1913, Dvinsk, Vitebsk Governorate, now Daugavpils, Latvia – 8 May 1992, Russia) – scientist in the field of control theory, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, and Lenin Prize laureate. A representative of the first generation of cyberneticists in the USSR.
From 1939, Mark Aizerman worked at the Institute of Automation and Telemechanics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1941, he volunteered for the front and was demobilised in 1945. In 1946, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the theory of nonlinear control systems.
In 1964, Mark Aizerman was awarded the Lenin Prize for the creation of a universal system of industrial pneumatic automation elements. From 1964 to 1978, he headed the Department of Theoretical Mechanics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
In 1982, on Aizerman's initiative, the Institute of Control Problems (formerly the Institute of Automation and Telemechanics until 1969) established the Laboratory of Nonlinear Process Dynamics and the Laboratory for Processing Large Data Sets in Hierarchical Systems.
In addition to his encyclopaedic knowledge, he possessed a truly brilliant sense of humour and exceptional teaching talent.
Mark Aizermann was the author and co-author of numerous scientific books, articles, and textbooks, including Theory of Automatic Control, Classical Mechanics, Logic. Automata. Algorithms, Choice of Options: Fundamentals of the Theory, and others.
He donated 1,500 books from his personal library to the Scientific and Technical Library of the Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics, and Automation.