Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov was a Soviet mathematician who played a central role in the creation of modern probability theory. He also gave fundamental contributions to the mathematics of topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, functional analysis, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.
- Occupation
- mathematician, computer scientist, statistician, university teacher
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union
- Born
- April 25, 1903, April 12, 1903
- Died
- October 20, 1987
