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.

• Gelfand–Tsetlin integrable system
• Boolean differential calculus
• Learning automaton
• Tsetlin machine

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)

• ЦЕТЛИН Михаил Львович
• ЦЕТЛИН М.Л.