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Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (Андре́й Никола́евич Колмого́ров) (kahl-mah-GAW-raff) ( April 25, 1903 - October 20, 1987) was a Russian mathematician who made major advances in the fields of probability theory and topology. He worked early in his career on intuitionistic logic, and Fourier series. He also worked on turbulence, and classical mechanics; and was a founder of algorithmic complexity theory.

Kolmogorov worked at Moscow State University. He studied under Nikolai Luzin, earning his Ph.D. in 1925.

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"The theory of probability as mathematical discipline can and should be developed from axioms in exactly the same way as Geometry and Algebra."

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Kolmogorov axioms
Kolmogorov complexity
Kolmogorov spaceIn topology and related branches of mathematics, the T spaces or Kolmogorov spaces form a broad class of well behaved topological spaces. The T condition is one of the separation axioms. Topological distinguishability To define T spaces, we first define t
Kolmogorov-Smirnov testIn statistics, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test is used to determine whether two empirical distributions are different or whether an empirical distribution differs from a theoretical distribution. The empirical cumulative distribution for n observations y is d
Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theoremThe Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem is a theorem in non-linear dynamics that solves the small-divisor problem in classical perturbation theory. The problem is whether or not a small perturbation of a conservative dynamical system results in a lasting peri
Kolmogorov's zero-one lawIn probability theory, Kolmogorov's zero-one law named in honor of Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, specifies that a certain type of event, called a tail event will either certainly happen or certainly not happen; that is, the probability of such an event o
Chapman-Kolmogorov equationIn mathematics, specifically on probability theory, and yet more specifically in the theory of stochastic processes, the Chapman-Kolmogorov equation is an identity relating the joint probability distributions of different sets of coordinates on a stochast

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Biography of Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov at the St. Andrews site
Collection of links to Kolmogorov resources
Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (in Russian)
Kolmogorov School at Moscow University
Mathematical genealogy of A.N. Kolmogorov

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Kolmogorov-Smirnov testIn statistics, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test is used to determine whether two empirical distributions are different or whether an empirical distribution differs from a theoretical distribution. The empirical cumulative distribution for n observations y is d	Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theoremThe Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem is a theorem in non-linear dynamics that solves the small-divisor problem in classical perturbation theory. The problem is whether or not a small perturbation of a conservative dynamical system results in a lasting peri	Kolmogorov spaceIn topology and related branches of mathematics, the T spaces or Kolmogorov spaces form a broad class of well behaved topological spaces. The T condition is one of the separation axioms. Topological distinguishability To define T spaces, we first define t
Kolmogorov's zero-one lawIn probability theory, Kolmogorov's zero-one law named in honor of Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, specifies that a certain type of event, called a tail event will either certainly happen or certainly not happen; that is, the probability of such an event o