| − | '''Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov''' (1903 - 1987) was a [[Russian]] mathematician, who made countless important contributions to various fields of mathematics. His ''Foundations of Probability Theory'' (first published 1926 in [[German]] as ''Grundlagen der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie'') are the groundwork of modern probability theory, using the concept of [[measurable space]]s. | + | '''Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov''' (1903 - 1987) was a [[Russia]]n mathematician, who made countless important contributions to various fields of mathematics. His ''Foundations of Probability Theory'' (first published 1926 in [[German]] as ''Grundlagen der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie'') are the groundwork of modern probability theory, using the concept of [[measurable space]]s. |