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Alexander Khinchine

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Alexander Khinchine · Science & Medicine

What

Founder of Soviet probability theory; the law of the iterated logarithm

When

1894, Kondrovo, Kaluga Governorate, Russia (Russian Empire) — 1959, Moscow, Soviet Union

Where

Russia (Soviet Union)

Biography

Alexander Khinchine is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Founder of Soviet probability theory; the law of the iterated logarithm

How & why

Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin was a Soviet mathematician, one of the founders of the Moscow school of probability theory alongside Kolmogorov. He made fundamental contributions to probability (including the law of the iterated logarithm), number theory, information theory and statistical mechanics. He was born in Kondrovo into a Jewish family.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Founder of Soviet probability theory; the law of the iterated logarithm

1894

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics