A New Kind of Science: A Rare Blend of Egomania and Insanity (2002)

I think that's the problem West have. Everyone must be an entrepreneur, which translates to profit and money. Even scientists.

The article mentions Kolmogorov and his work on randomness and how his disciple is more famous for finding useful applications on it. Also another collaborator he only met once at a cybernetics conference in moscow, a 23 year old japanese named Karatsuba, came up with another improvement on his ideas and is responsible for the way our CPUs are able to do fast multiplication to this day. Karatsuba didn't even know his paper was being included in a book by Kolmogorov until he received a pre-print!