On the history of martingales in the study of randomness
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Martingales played an important role in the study of randomness in the twentieth century. Jean Ville invented martingales in the 1930s in order to improve Richard von Mises’ concept of a collective, and Claus-Peter Schnorr made martingales algorithmic in the 1970s in order to advance the study of algorithmic randomness.
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