Kolmogorov, a young man living in Moscow, was always intrigued by history. Even though he was just 17 years old, he was already intelligently ahead of his peers. In the early 1920’s he did his research on statistical analysis of people. This is where the idea of probability stemmed from, the prediction of how one thing will react do to certain circumstances.
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The Man Who Invented Modern Probability. Wow.