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Andrey Kolmogorov
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.
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science · Soviet mathematician (1903–1987) · mathematician · computer scientist · statistician · university teacher · physicist · also Andrey Kolmogorov, Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, Andrey Kolmogoroff, Andrey N. Kolmogorov, A. N. Kolmogorov, Kolmogorov
Born 25 April 1903 · Died 20 October 1987 · Q153224
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After reviewing archival documents made available during the 1990s and other surviving testimonies, that the students of Luzin had initiated the accusations against Luzin out of personal acrimony; there was no definitive
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2012· 1 entry
Kolmogorov, Andrey Nikolaevich; Fomin, Sergei Vasilyevich (1975) [1970] Introductory Real Analysis, New York: Dover Publications
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1987· 2 entries
Died 1987-10-20.
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And his remains were buried in the Novodevichy cemetery
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Lobachevsky Prize (1986).
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1983).
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1980).
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1979· 1 entry
“Photons: Corpuscles of Light”
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1975· 2 entries
Won Helmholtz Medal (1975).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1975).
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1973).
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1971· 1 entry
Kolmogorov joined an oceanographic expedition aboard the research vessel Dmitri Mendeleev
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1970· 1 entry
Won Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970).
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1965· 2 entries
Awarded Lenin Prize (1965).
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Elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1967
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1964).
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1963· 3 entries
Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1963).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1963).
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Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1964
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded Balzan Prize (1962).
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1961).
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1957· 1 entry
Working jointly with his student Vladimir Arnold, he solved a particular interpretation of Hilbert's thirteenth problem
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1955· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1955).
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1954· 1 entry
At the International Congress of Mathematicians
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1953).
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1951· 1 entry
Won PL Chebyshev Gold Medal (1951).
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1946· 1 entry
Won Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1946).
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1945· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1945).
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1944· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1944).
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1941· 3 entries
Awarded Stalin Prize, 2nd degree (1941).
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Awarded Stalin Prize (1941).
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Elected an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1959
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1940· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1940).
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1939· 1 entry
Was elected a full member (academician) of the USSR Academy of Sciences
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1936· 1 entry
Kolmogorov's doctoral advisor Nikolai Luzin became a high-profile target of Stalin's regime in what is now called the "Luzin Affair"
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1935· 1 entry
Kolmogorov became the first chairman of the department of probability theory at Moscow State University
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1933· 1 entry
Kolmogorov published his book Foundations of the Theory of Probability, laying the modern axiomatic foundations of probability theory and establishing his reputation as the world's leading expert in this field
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1931· 1 entry
Became a professor at Moscow State University
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1930· 1 entry
Kolmogorov went on his first long trip abroad, traveling to Göttingen and Munich and then to Paris
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1929· 3 entries
Studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University (1925–1929).
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Kolmogorov and Alexandrov during a long travel stayed about a month in an island in lake Sevan in Armenia
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Kolmogorov earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Moscow State University
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1925· 3 entries
Kolmogorov graduated from Moscow State University and began to study under the supervision of Nikolai Luzin
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Studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University (1920–1925).
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Published his work in intuitionistic logic, "On the principle of the excluded middle," in which he proved that under a certain interpretation, all statements of classical formal logic can be formulated as those of int
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1922· 1 entry
Kolmogorov gained international recognition for constructing a Fourier series that diverges almost everywhere
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1920· 2 entries
Studied at D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia (1920).
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Studied at E. A. Repman gymnasium (1910–1920).
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1919· 1 entry
And was presumed to have been killed in the Russian Civil War
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1910· 1 entry
His aunt adopted him, and they moved to Moscow, where he graduated from high school in 1920
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1903· 1 entry
Born 1903-04-25.
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