Dlaczego Andriej N. Kołmogorow zajął się humanistyką?
Why did Andrey Kolmogorov deal with humanities?

Summary/Abstract: The Soviet mathematician Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903‒1987), author of over half a thousand scientific works, was one of the most eminent mathematicians of the 20th century and at some point perhaps even the greatest. In the 1960s, Kolmogorov began intensive research into linguistics and verse theory after his fifties. Among other things, he is the author of a precise definition of a grammatical case, the determination of a metre of poems, in particular an iamb. The aim of this work is not only to explain the reasons why Kolmogorov dealt with humanities (history, linguistics, poetry theory). In this paper we would also like to emphacise the fact that the famous mathematician was successfully involved in humanities. It seems that not many Polish mathematicians who know some of Kolmogorov’s works in one or another mathematical field know, for example, about his literary works concerning the theory of verse. It may be suspected that many literary experts and linguists are also unaware of the existence of these works.

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