Probability was understood long before computers, true, but it waited for Kolmogorov’s axiomatic formulation to actually become the coherent field of math that

Probability was understood long before computers, true, but it waited for Kolmogorov’s axiomatic formulation to actually become the coherent field of math that it is today, rather than a hodge lodge of definitions, tricks and theorems. And that only happened in 1933, which is around the time that computers became a thing. Not general purpose ones yet - I agree it was before computers were widespread, but definitely not far before they were a thing.