Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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)