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KOLMOGOROV STORIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2020

Yu. K. Belyaev and
Asaf H. HajiyevOpen the ORCID record for Asaf H. Hajiyev[Opens in a new window]
Yu. K. Belyaev
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden E-mail: yuri.belyaev@umu.se
Asaf H. Hajiyev
Affiliation:
Institute of Control Systems, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, B.Vahabzada, 9, Baku, AZ1141, Azerbaijan E-mail: asaf.hajiyev@gmail.com
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Abstract

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Authors of this paper were educated and have spent many years in Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), in the Interfaculty Laboratory of Statistical Methods (ILSM). Prof. Yu. K. Belyaev was student of Kolmogorov, and for several years his deputy in the ILSM, created and led by the great A. N. Kolmogorov. Now Prof. Yuri Belyaev is Emeritus Professor at Umea University (Sweden). Asaf Hajiyev was a PhD student in Kolmogorov's ILSM. In this paper some unusual incidents about the legendary Kolmogorov, and people around him are presented. Some stories were taken from the books and the internet (see references) dedicated to the memory of Kolmogorov; some were told by his students, and some happened with authors of this paper.

Men are cruel but Man is kind.

– A. N. Kolmogorov

Keywords

Reliability Theory

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Type
Research Article
Information
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , July 2021, pp. 355 - 368
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2020

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