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The question of the exact region in the complex plane of the possible single eigenvalues of all $n$-by-$n$ stochastic matrices was raised by Kolmogorov in 1937 and settled by Karpelevi\v{c} in 1951 after a partial result by Dmitriev and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Charles R. Johnson , Pietro Paparella

I share fond memories of my former PhD advisor Alexei Starobinsky with whom I was closely associated for nearly 45 years. I reflect upon my early years in Moscow when I worked with him on my thesis, and touch upon the seminal work on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-15 Varun Sahni

The crucial but very confidential fact is brought into evidence that, as Kolmogorov himself repeatedly claimed, the mathematical theory of probabilities cannot be applied to physical, factual probabilistic situations because the factual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-10 Mioara Mugur-Schachter

In the Soviet Union a reform movement in mathematics education was triggered by Andrey Kolmogorov in the 1970s, and followed by a counter-reform. This movement was rooted in the very different socioeconomic conditions of that time and…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Alexandre Borovik

In his work \cite{Ti80}, Tikhomirov combined elements of Stein's method with the theory of characteristic functions to derive Kolmogorov bounds for the convergence rate in the central limit theorem for a normalized sum of a stationary…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Peter Eichelsbacher , Benedikt Rednoß

Randomness extraction is the process of constructing a source of randomness of high quality from one or several sources of randomness of lower quality. The problem can be modeled using probability distributions and min-entropy to measure…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Marius Zimand

This book covers the history of probability up to Kolmogorov with essential additional coverage of statistics up to Fisher. Based on my work of ca. 50 years, it is the only suchlike book. Gorrochurn (2016) is similar but his study of events…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Oscar Sheynin

The entropy in dynamical systems was introduced by A. Kolmogorov. Initially dedicated to iterations of one finite measure preserving transformation, the notion was gradually generalized so as to encompass amenable group actions and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-25 Damien Gaboriau

Historically, probability theory has been studied for a long time, and Kolmogorov, Levy Ito Kiyoshi, and others have mathematically developed modern probability in conjunction with measurement theory. On the other hand, commutative algebra…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Naoya Maeda

In the fields of solar physics, space weather, and high-energy atmospheric physics, the physicists at Aragats have established the Cosmic Ray Division of Yerevan Physics Institute as a leading institution globally. The SEVAN network, which…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Z. Asaturyan , A. Chilingarian

Part V of the second edition of Pierre R\'{e}mond de Montmort's Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard published in 1713 contains correspondence on probability problems between Montmort and Nicolaus Bernoulli. This correspondence begins in…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2015-04-09 David R. Bellhouse , Nicolas Fillion

This paper develops a geometric reinterpretation of probability in which expectation arises from averaging in probability coordinates rather than in value space. By interpreting the cumulative distribution functions as coordinate maps, a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Manuela-Simona Cojocea

Let $E/\mathbb{Q}$ be an elliptic curve and let $K$ be an imaginary quadratic field. Under a certain Heegner hypothesis, Kolyvagin constructed cohomology classes for $E$ using $K$-CM points and conjectured they did not all vanish.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-18 Naomi Sweeting

Whether Kolmogorov-Loveland randomness (KLR) is the same as Martin-L\"of randomness (MLR) is a major open problem in the study of algorithmic randomness. More general classes of betting strategies than Kolmogorov-Loveland ones have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Tomislav Petrović

This article is about the proof of the celebrated KAM theorem as sketched out in \cite{KOL} Kolmogorov's original presentation to the ICM. The proof presented here has been detailed as an effort to clarify if Kolmogorov's argument can be…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Othmane Islah

Kolmogorov complexity of a finite binary word reflects both algorithmic structure and the empirical distribution of symbols appearing in the word. Words with symbol frequencies far from one half have smaller combinatorial richness and…

Computation · Statistics 2025-12-25 Brani Vidakovic

I was interested in the work of Solomon Marcus in Mathematical Linguistics as a high-school student. Later, I had the opportunity to discuss with him about many topics. He was a polymath. We wrote a paper together, and I refereed an…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Florin Felix Nichita

We study the entropy time evolution of a quantum mechanical model, which is frequently used as a prototype for Anderson's localization. Recently Latora and Baranger [V. Latora, M. Baranger, Phys. Rev.Lett. 82, 520(1999)] found that there…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Grigolini , Marco G. Pala , Luigi Palatella , Roberto Roncaglia

Since the introduction of the Kolmogorov complexity of binary sequences in the 1960s, there have been significant advancements in the topic of complexity measures for randomness assessment, which are of fundamental importance in theoretical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chunlei Li

I am presenting a first-ever scientific collection of short sayings on probability and statistics expressed by most various men of science, many classics included, from antiquity to Kepler to our time. Quite understandably, the reader will…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Oscar Sheynin