Andrei Kolmogorov

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Soviet mathematician human mathematician probabilist university teacher

Andrei Kolmogorov was a pioneering Soviet mathematician whose foundational work in probability theory, turbulence, topology, and algorithmic complexity profoundly shaped modern mathematics and theoretical computer science.

Aliases (3)

Andrey Kolmogorov ×6
Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov ×1
Kolmogorov ×1

Statements (62)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Soviet mathematician → human → mathematician → probabilist → university teacher →
awardReceived	Lenin Prize → Lomonosov Gold Medal → Order of Lenin → Stalin Prize →
countryOfCitizenship	Russia → Soviet Union →
dateOfBirth	1903-04-25 →
dateOfDeath	1987-10-20 →
doctoralAdvisor	Nikolai Luzin →
doctoralStudent	Albert Shiryaev → Vladimir Arnold → Yakov Sinai →
educatedAt	Moscow State University →
employer	Moscow State University →
familyName	Kolmogorov →
fieldOfWork	algorithmic complexity theory → dynamical systems → ergodic theory → functional analysis → information theory → mathematical statistics → measure theory → probability theory → topology → turbulence →
fullName	Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov →
gender	male →
givenName	Andrei →
influenced	Alexander Khinchin → Paul Halmos → Per Martin-Löf → Vladimir Arnold →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences → Polish Academy of Sciences → Royal Society of London → Russian Academy of Sciences → USSR Academy of Sciences →
nativeLanguage	Russian →
notableIdea	Kolmogorov complexity → algorithmic randomness → axiomatization of probability →
notableWork	Foundations of the Theory of Probability → Kolmogorov axioms → Kolmogorov complexity → Kolmogorov continuity theorem → Kolmogorov equations → Kolmogorov extension theorem → Kolmogorov spectrum of turbulence → Kolmogorov zero–one law → Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theory → Kolmogorov–Smirnov test →
placeOfBirth	Russia → Tambov Governorate →
placeOfDeath	Moscow → Russian SFSR → Soviet Union →
workLocation	Moscow →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Aleksandr Khinchin ("Andrey Kolmogorov") → Pavel Alexandrov ("Andrey Kolmogorov") →	notableStudent
Pavel Alexandrov ("Andrey Kolmogorov") →	coAuthor
Andrei Kolmogorov ("Kolmogorov") →	familyName
Andrei Kolmogorov ("Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov") →	fullName
Moscow State University →	hasNotableAlumni
Pavel Alexandrov ("Andrey Kolmogorov") →	influenced
Aleksandr Khinchin ("Andrey Kolmogorov") →	influencedBy
Kolmogorov backward equation ("Andrey Kolmogorov") →	namedAfter