Kolmogorovs

Kolmogorovs is the plural form of the Russian surname Kolmogorov. In English-language texts, it is used to refer collectively to people who share the surname or to discussions of the Kolmogorov family. The most notable bearer is Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987), a Soviet mathematician whose work established the modern foundations of probability theory and influenced many areas of mathematics and physics. The name Kolmogorov is widely associated with a number of key concepts in probability, statistics, and turbulence theory, most of which are named after him or closely related to his theoretical framework.

Notable concepts include Kolmogorov's axioms of probability, which formalize the rules of probability; Kolmogorov complexity, a measure of the information content of objects in algorithmic information theory; the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, a nonparametric method for comparing distributions; and results such as Kolmogorov's 0-1 law and Kolmogorov's continuity theorem, which play foundational roles in probability and analysis. The surname appears in scientific literature as Kolmogorov's, denoting the attribution to Andrey Kolmogorov.

Origin and usage: Kolmogorov is a common Russian surname derived from a patronymic. The English transliteration most often appears as Kolmogorov; Kolmogorovs is used in plural references, while Kolmogorov's is the conventional possessive form when attributing a concept to a single person. The article on Kolmogorovs thus functions as a plural or surname-based entry rather than a single person.