Kolmogorov: Life and creative activities
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Kolmogorov: Life and creative activities
zbMATH Open document ID: 0688.01008
published in: The Annals of Probability
publication date: 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: The article tries to fully embrace the versatile life and creative activities of A. N. Kolmogorov, his exceptional breadth of scientific interests, his extraordinary scientific productivity and human generosity. Following in chronological order, this is an attempt to describe the basic scientific results and inventions of Kolmogorov by remarks, bringing out the impact of his ideas and works on the origin and development of several branches of science. The scientific atmosphere of high demand and lofty moral standards, his ability to encourage creativity and to spot a fitting problem or task for everyone, his extraordinary generous attitude to ideas - all these aspects are briefly attempted at being brought to life. The article considers several sources, especially a number of studies about Kolmogorov issued in Uspekhi Matematicheskikh Nauk and Theory of Probability and its Applications, as well as the comments to the three volumes of his selected works, published in Russian, in 1985, 1986 and 1987, respectively, by Nauka Publishing House.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A70
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03-03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 28-03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 22-03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 40-03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 42-03
zbMATH DE Number: 4127157
author: Albert N. Shiryaev
reviewed by: Cristina Irimia
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1176991251
OpenAlex ID: W2102209678
DOI: 10.1214/AOP/1176991251
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4127157