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Andrey Kolmogorov

Soviet mathematician

1903 - 1987

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His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia. Andrey Kolmogorov is the 69th most popular mathematician (up from 79th in 2024), the 129th most popular biography from Russia (up from 153rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Mathematician.

Andrey Kolmogorov was a Russian mathematician who is most famous for his contributions to probability theory and information theory.

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Andrey Kolmogorov ranks #129 among 4,534 people in Pantheon born in Russia, inside the top 3% of that group.

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Andrey Kolmogorov's biography appears in 68 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 95% of all Mathematicians.

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Among Mathematicians

Among mathematicians, Andrey Kolmogorov ranks 69 out of 1,010. Before him are Ludolph van Ceulen, Girard Desargues, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Richard Dedekind, Johann Heinrich Lambert, and Hermann Minkowski. After him are Gaspard Monge, Norbert Wiener, Giuseppe Peano, Stanisław Ulam, Siméon Denis Poisson, and Bhāskara II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Andrey Kolmogorov ranks 16. Before him are C. F. Powell, Adolf Butenandt, Habib Bourguiba, Fernandel, Mark Rothko, and Jan Tinbergen. After him are Galeazzo Ciano, Vladimir Horowitz, Yasujirō Ozu, Marguerite Yourcenar, Tamam Shud case, and Lars Onsager. Among people deceased in 1987, Andrey Kolmogorov ranks 10. Before him are Dalida, Carl Rogers, Primo Levi, Lee Byung-chul, John Howard Northrop, and Rita Hayworth. After him are Fred Astaire, Walter Houser Brattain, Gunnar Myrdal, Marguerite Yourcenar, William Stuart-Houston, and William P. Murphy.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrey Kolmogorov ranks 129 out of 4,534. Before him are Dzhokhar Dudayev (1944), Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Sergey Kirov (1886), Vasili IV of Russia (1552), and Mily Balakirev (1837). After him are Pavel Cherenkov (1904), Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878), Vasily Chuikov (1900), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), Valery Legasov (1936), and Alexei Kosygin (1904).

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Among Mathematicians In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Andrey Kolmogorov ranks 5. Before him are David Hilbert (1862), Georg Cantor (1845), Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), and Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792). After him are Christian Goldbach (1690), Grigori Perelman (1966), Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Alexander Friedmann (1888), Andrey Markov (1856), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), and Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943).

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