Andrey Kolmogorov

Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Колмогоров) (April 25, 1903 – October 20, 1987) was a Soviet Russian mathematician, preeminent in the 20th century, who advanced various scientific fields (among them probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics and computational complexity). Kolmogorov was born at Tambov in 1903. His unwed mother died in childbirth and he was raised by his aunts in T... more

Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Колмогоров) (April 25, 1903 – October 20, 1987) was a Soviet Russian mathematician, preeminent in the 20th century, who advanced various scientific fields (among them probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics and computational complexity). Kolmogorov was born at Tambov in 1903. His unwed mother died in childbirth and he was raised by his aunts in Tunoshna near Yaroslavl at the estate of his grandfather, a wealthy nobleman. His father, an agronomist by trade, was deported from Saint-Petersburg for participation in the revolutionary movement. He disappeared and was presumed to have been killed in the Russian Civil War. Kolmogorov was educated in his aunt's village school, and his earliest literary efforts and mathematical papers were printed in the school newspaper. As an adolescent he designed perpetual motion machines, concealing their (necessary) defects so cleverly that his secondary... less