Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Andrey Kolmogorov
Born: April 25, 1903
Died: October 20, 1987 (aged 84)
Bio: Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov 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.
Known for:
- Foundations of the theory of probability (1950)
- Introductory real analysis (1970)