Michael Lvovitch Tsetlin (the surname is also written Cetlin, Tzetlin, Zeitlin, Zetlin; cyrillic: Михаил Львович Цетлин) (22 September 1924 – 30 May 1966) was a Soviet mathematician and physicist who worked on cybernetics. He introduced the Gelfand–Tsetlin basis for finite-dimensional representations of classical groups. He was the founder of the learning automaton approach to machine learning.
Collection of the publications
Tsetlin M.L. Automation theory and modeling of biological systems. Academic Press; 1973.
- "Michael Lvovitch Tsetlin (obituary)", Probl. Peredachi Inf. (in Russian), 2 (3): 102, 1966, Zbl 0261.01018
- Latash, Mark L. (2008), Synergy, Oxford University Press
- Ivanov, Vyach. Vs. (1982), "From the history of cybernetics in the USSR. A sketch of the life and career of M. L. Tsetlin", Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Nauchnyui Sovet po Kompleksnoui Probleme Kibernetika. Voprosy Kibernetiki (78): 166–190, ISSN 0321-2769, MR 0848127 (In Russian)