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History of Cybernetics in Sports in the USSR

Models Released in the 1960s

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In this article we provide a review of the emergence and development of Cybernetics in sports in the USSR as well as major events in this field. We also present original mathematical models of sports performance created by Soviet mathematicians and physiologists.

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Timme, E.A., Dayal, A.A., Kukushkin, Y.A. (2020). History of Cybernetics in Sports in the USSR. In: Lames, M., Danilov, A., Timme, E., Vassilevski, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Computer Science in Sport (IACSS 2019). IACSS 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1028. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35048-2_8

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