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"Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903-1987) - Soviet mathematician, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. Kolmogorov is one of the founders of modern probability theory, he obtained fundamental results in topology, geometry, mathematical logic, classical mechanics, the theory of turbulence, the theory of the complexity of algorithms , information theory, theory of functions, theory of trigonometric series, measure theory, theory of approximation of functions, set theory, theory of differential equations, theory of dynamical systems, functional analysis and in a number of other areas of mathematics and its applications. Kolmogorov made his first scientific discovery in 1922, constructing an example of a Fourier series, diverging almost everywhere, and after him, he gave an example of such a series diverging at each point. These works, which came as a complete surprise to specialists, brought world fame to the nineteen-year-old student. Subsequently, A.N. Kolmogorov - Professor of Moscow State University (since 1931), Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1939). President of the Moscow Mathematical Society in 1964-1966 and 1974-1985. Hero of Socialist Labor (1963). Laureate of the Lenin and Stalin Prizes. Foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences (1967), Royal Society of London (1964), French (Paris) Academy of Sciences (1966), member of the German Academy of Naturalists "Leopoldina" (1959), honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1959), foreign member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1965), the Polish Academy of Sciences (1956), the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (1963), the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic (1977), the Finnish Academy of Sciences (1985), an honorary member of the Romanian Academy. Member of the London Mathematical Society (1962), Indian Mathematical Society (1962), foreign member of the American Philosophical Society (1961). Kolmogorov - Honorary Doctor of the University of Paris (1955), Stockholm University (1960), Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta (1962). A.N. Kolmogorov is the founder of a huge scientific school, among his students there are great mathematicians who created their own scientific schools: V.I. Arnold, I.M. Gelfand, B.P. Demidovich, V.M. Alekseev, G.I. Barenblatt, A.A. Borovkov, A.G. Vitushkin, B.V. Gnedenko, R.L. Dobrushin, E.B. Dynkin, A.I. Maltsev, M.D. Millionshchikov, V.S. Mikhalevich, A.S. Monin, S.M. Nikolsky, A. M. Obukhov, Yu.V. Prokhorov, Ya.G. Sinai, V.M. Tikhomirov, Yu.N. Tyurin, A.N. Shiryaev, V.A.Uspensky, S.V. Fomin, A.M. Yaglom and many others. In addition to scientific activity, A.N. Kolmogorov devoted a lot of energy to school mathematics. He is the author of the idea of ​​creating schools of physics and mathematics and the organizer of the first FMS in the USSR. Founder of the physics and mathematics journal "Kvant" for schoolchildren