The Praesidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences has decided to publish
three volumes of Selected Works of A.N. Kolmogorov, one of the most
prominent mathematicians of the 20th century. The creative work of A.N.
Kolmogorov is exceptionally versatile. In his studies on trigonometric
and orthogonal series, theory of measure and inte- gral, mathematical
logic, approximation theory, geometry, topology, functional analysis,
classical mechanics, ergodic theory, superposition of functions, and in-
formation theory, many conceptual and fundamental problems were solved
and new questions were posed which gave rise to a great number of
investigations. A.N. Kolmogorov is one of the founders of the Soviet
school of probability theory, mathematical statistics, and the theory of
turbulence. In these areas he obtained a number of basic results, with
many applications to mechanics, geophysics, linguistics, biology and
other branches of knowledge. This edition includes the most important
papers by A.N. Kolmogorov on mathematics and natural science. It does
not include philosophical and ped- agogical studies of A.N. Kolmogorov,
his articles written for the "Bol'shaya Sov'etskaya Entsiklopediya",
papers on prosody and various applications of mathematics and
publications on general questions. The material of this edition was
selected and grouped by A.N. Kolmogorov.