KOLMOGOROV, ANDREY NIKOLAYEVICH

born April 25 [April 12, Old Style], 1903, Tambov, Russia died Oct. 20, 1987, Moscow Russian mathematician whose work influenced many branches of modern mathematics, especially harmonic analysis, probability, set theory, information theory, and number theory. A man of broad culture, with interests in technology, history, and education, he played an active role in the reform of education in the Soviet Union. He is best remembered for a brilliant series of papers on the theory of probability. Roger Lee Cooke Additional reading The most detailed scientific biography of Kolmogorov is the article by A.N. Shiryaev, Kolmogorov: Life and Creative Activities, The Annals of Probability, 17(3): 866944 (July 1989).A recent retrospective on his work is Harold H. McFaden (trans.), Kolmogorov in Perspective (2000).