1. Andrey Kolmogorov contributed to the mathematics of topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.
24 Facts About Andrey Kolmogorov
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Andrey Kolmogorov was born in Tambov, about 500 kilometers southeast of Moscow, in 1903.
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Andrey Kolmogorov was supposedly named Nikolai Matveyevich Katayev and had been an agronomist.
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Andrey Kolmogorov disappeared in 1919 and was presumed to have been killed in the Russian Civil War.
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Andrey Kolmogorov was educated in his aunt Vera's village school, and his earliest literary efforts and mathematical papers were printed in the school journal "The Swallow of Spring".
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Andrey Kolmogorov was the "editor" of the mathematical section of this journal.
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Later that same year, Andrey Kolmogorov began to study at Moscow State University and at the same time Mendeleev Moscow Institute of Chemistry and Technology.
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In 1922, Andrey Kolmogorov gained international recognition for constructing a Fourier series that diverges almost everywhere.
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In 1925, Andrey Kolmogorov graduated from Moscow State University and began to study under the supervision of Nikolai Luzin.
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Andrey Kolmogorov became interested in probability theory.
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In 1929, Andrey Kolmogorov earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Moscow State University.
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In 1930, Andrey Kolmogorov went on his first long trip abroad, traveling to Gottingen and Munich and then to Paris.
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Andrey Kolmogorov had various scientific contacts in Gottingen, first with Richard Courant and his students working on limit theorems, where diffusion processes proved to be the limits of discrete random processes, then with Hermann Weyl in intuitionistic logic, and lastly with Edmund Landau in function theory.
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Andrey Kolmogorov's pioneering work About the Analytical Methods of Probability Theory was published in 1931.
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In 1933, Andrey Kolmogorov published his book Foundations of the Theory of Probability, laying the modern axiomatic foundations of probability theory and establishing his reputation as the world's leading expert in this field.
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In 1935, Andrey Kolmogorov became the first chairman of the department of probability theory at Moscow State University.
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Later, Andrey Kolmogorov focused his research on turbulence, beginning his publications in 1941.
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Andrey Kolmogorov pursued a vigorous teaching routine throughout his life both at the university level and with younger children, as he was actively involved in developing a pedagogy for gifted children in literature, music, and mathematics.
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At Moscow State University, Andrey Kolmogorov occupied different positions including the heads of several departments: probability, statistics, and random processes; mathematical logic.
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Andrey Kolmogorov served as the Dean of the Moscow State University Department of Mechanics and Mathematics.
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In 1971, Andrey Kolmogorov joined an oceanographic expedition aboard the research vessel Dmitri Mendeleev.
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Andrey Kolmogorov wrote a number of articles for the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
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Andrey Kolmogorov died in Moscow in 1987 and his remains were buried in the Novodevichy cemetery.
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Andrey Kolmogorov received numerous awards and honours both during and after his lifetime:.