A. Kolmogorov

Andrey Kolmogorov
Born	Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903-04-25)25 April 1903 Tambov, Russian Empire
Died	20 October 1987(1987-10-20) (aged 84) Moscow, Soviet Union
Citizenship	Soviet Union
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Known for	Probability theory Topology Intuitionistic logic Turbulence studies Classical mechanics Mathematical analysis Kolmogorov complexity KAM theorem KPP equation
Spouse(s)	Anna Dmitrievna Egorova (m. 1942–1987)
Awards	Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Stalin Prize (1941) Balzan Prize (1962) ForMemRS (1964)  Lenin Prize (1965) Wolf Prize (1980) Lobachevsky Prize (1986)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Moscow State University
Doctoral advisor	Nikolai Luzin
Doctoral students	Vladimir Alekseev Vladimir Arnold Sergei N. Artemov Grigory Barenblatt Roland Dobrushin Eugene Dynkin Israil Gelfand Boris Gnedenko Leonid Levin Per Martin-Löf Andrei Monin Sergey Nikolsky Alexander Obukhov Yuri Prokhorov Yakov Sinai Albert Shiryaev Anatoli Vitushkin Vladimir Uspensky Akiva Yaglom

Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (Russian: Андре́й Никола́евич Колмого́ров, IPA: [ɐnˈdrʲej nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ kəlmɐˈɡorəf] ( listen), 25 April 1903 – 20 October 1987) was a 20th-century Soviet mathematician who made significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.

Andrey Kolmogorov was born in Tambov, about 500 kilometers south-southeast of Moscow, in 1903. His unmarried mother, Maria Y. Kolmogorova, died giving birth to him. Andrey was raised by two of his aunts in Tunoshna (near Yaroslavl) at the estate of his grandfather, a well-to-do nobleman.

Little is known about Andrey's father. He was supposedly named Nikolai Matveevich Kataev and had been an agronomist. Nikolai had been exiled from St. Petersburg to the Yaroslavl province after his participation in the revolutionary movement against the czars. He disappeared in 1919 and he was presumed to have been killed in the Russian Civil War.

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