Като стана дума за история ето една история за историята и Колмогоров.

He studied various other subjects including metallurgy and in particular history. He even wrote a serious treatise on the 15th century history of the Russian city Novogrod. One of the well-known anecdotes describes Kolmogorov’s history teacher explaining to him that “maybe in mathematics one proof is considered to be sufficient, however in history it is preferable to have at least ten proofs!”

След което решил да се занимава с математика.