In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Nikolaevich and the family name is Kolmogorov.
Andrey Kolmogorov
Андрей Колмогоров
Born
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
(1903-04-25)25 April 1903
Tambov, Russian Empire
Died
20 October 1987(1987-10-20) (aged 84)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater
Moscow State University (PhD)
Known for
Probability theory
Probability space
Topology
Intuitionistic logic
Turbulence studies
Classical mechanics
Mathematical analysis
Kolmogorov complexity
KAM theorem
KPP equation
Spouse
Anna Dmitrievna Egorova
(m. 1942–1987)
Awards
Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences[1]
Stalin Prize (1941)
Balzan Prize (1962)
ForMemRS (1964)[2]
Lenin Prize (1965)
Wolf Prize (1980)
Lobachevsky Prize (1986)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
Moscow State University
Doctoral advisor
Nikolai Luzin[3]
Doctoral students
Vladimir Alekseev
Vladimir Arnold
Sergei N. Artemov
Grigory Barenblatt
Roland Dobrushin
Eugene Dynkin
Israil Gelfand
Boris Gnedenko
Leonid Levin
Valerii Kozlov
Per Martin-Löf
Robert Minlos
Andrei Monin
Sergey Nikolsky
Alexander Obukhov
Yuri Prokhorov
Yakov Sinai
Albert Shiryaev
Anatoli Vitushkin
Vladimir Uspensky
Akiva Yaglom
Vladimir Vovk[3]
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (Russian: Андре́й Никола́евич Колмого́ров, IPA:[ɐnˈdrʲejnʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕkəlmɐˈɡorəf]ⓘ, 25 April 1903 – 20 October 1987)[4][5] was a Soviet mathematician who contributed to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.[6][2][7]
^Youschkevitch, A. P. (1983), "A. N. Kolmogorov: Historian and philosopher of mathematics on the occasion of his 80th birfhday", Historia Mathematica, 10 (4): 383–395, doi:10.1016/0315-0860(83)90001-0
^ abKendall, D. G. (1991). "Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov. 25 April 1903-20 October 1987". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 37: 300–326. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1991.0015. S2CID 58080873.
^ abCite error: The named reference mathgene was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Parthasarathy, K. R. (1988). "Obituary: Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov". Journal of Applied Probability. 25 (2): 445–450. doi:10.1017/S0021900200041115. JSTOR 3214455.
^Yaglom, A M (January 1994). "A. N. Kolmogorov as a Fluid Mechanician and Founder of a School in Turbulence Research". Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 26 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1146/annurev.fl.26.010194.000245. ISSN 0066-4189.
^O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Andrey Kolmogorov", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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