What is Andrey Kolmogorov?
[[File:Andrej Nikolajewitsch Kolmogorov.jpg|thumb|right|Andrey Kolmogorov]] '''Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov''' ({{lang-rus|Андре́й Никола́евич Колмого́ров|p=ɐnˈdrʲej nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ kəlmɐˈɡorəf|a=Ru-Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov.ogg}}, 25 April 1903&nbsp;– 20 October 1987)<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1070/RM1988v043n01ABEH001555 | title = Academician Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (obituary) | journal = Russian Mathematical Surveys | volume = 43 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–9 | year = 1988 |bibcode = 1988RuMaS..43....1. | s2cid = 250857950 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Parthasarathy | first1 = K. R. | title = Obituary: Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov | journal = Journal of Applied Probability | volume = 25 | issue = 2 | pages = 445–450 | year = 1988 | jstor = 3214455 | doi = 10.1017/S0021900200041115 | doi-access = free }}</ref> was a [[Soviet]] [[mathematician]] and [[computer scientist]]. He made major advances in the fields of [[probability theory]] and [[topology]]. Born in a [[Russians|Russian]] family in [[Tambov]], he worked early in his career on [[intuitionistic logic]], and [[Fourier series]]. He also worked on [[turbulence]], [[classical mechanics]], and [[information theory]]; and was a founder of [[algorithmic complexity theory]] which is often referred to as simply [[Kolmogorov complexity|Kolmogorov complexity theory]]. Kolmogorov worked at [[Moscow State University]]. He studied under [[Nikolai Luzin]], earning his [[Ph.D.]] in 1929. In 1931 he became [[professor]] at this university. In 1939 he received the title of academician of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences|USSR Academy of Sciences]]. He died in [[Moscow]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kolmogorov, Andrey}} [[Category:1903 births]] [[Category:1987 deaths]] [[Category:Russian computer scientists|Kolmogorov, Andrey]] [[Category:Russian geometers|Kolmogorov, Andrey]] [[Category:Topologists]] [[Category:Moscow State University faculty]]