Alexander Khinchine
Alexander Khinchine · Science & Medicine
Founder of Soviet probability theory; the law of the iterated logarithm
1894, Kondrovo, Kaluga Governorate, Russia (Russian Empire) — 1959, Moscow, Soviet Union
Russia (Soviet Union)
Alexander Khinchine is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Founder of Soviet probability theory; the law of the iterated logarithm
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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Founder of Soviet probability theory; the law of the iterated logarithm
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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