Aleksandr Khinchin | |
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| Born | Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin July 19, 1894 |
| Died | November 18, 1959 (aged 65) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian, Soviet |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Moscow State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Nikolai Luzin |
| Doctoral students | Alexander Buchstab Alexander Gelfond |
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Я́ковлевич Хи́нчин, French: Alexandre Khintchine), July 19, 1894 – November 18, 1959, was a Soviet mathematician and one of the most significant contributors to the Soviet school of probability theory.
Due to romanization conventions, his name is sometimes written as "Khinchin" and other times as "Khintchine".