Mathematician:Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin

Mathematician
Russian mathematician who was an important figure in the field of probability theory.

Nationality
Soviet Russian

History

 * Born: 19 July 1894 in Kondrovo, Kaluzhskaya guberniya, Russia
 * Died: 18 November 1959 in Moscow, USSR

Theorems and Definitions

 * Khinchin's Constant
 * Khinchin-Lévy Constant (with )


 * Khinchin Inequality
 * Khinchin's Law, also known as the Weak Law of Large Numbers
 * Khinchin's Theorem on Diophantine Approximations


 * Lévy-Khintchin Formula of Characteristic Function of Lévy Process (with )
 * Pollaczek-Khinchine Formula (with )
 * Wiener-Khinchin Theorem (with )


 * Equidistribution Theorem
 * Law of the Iterated Logarithm

Publications

 * 1927: Recherches sur la structure des fonctions mesurables
 * 1927: Basic laws of probability theory
 * 1929: Sur la Loi des Grandes Nombres
 * 1933: Asymptotische Gesetze der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung
 * 1933: Gram determinants for stationary series (with )
 * 1936: Continued Fractions (2nd ed. 1949)
 * 1943: Eight lectures on mathematical analysis
 * 1943: Mathematical Principles of Statistical Mechanics
 * 1947: Three Pearls of Number Theory
 * 1951: Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Statistics
 * 1962: An elementary introduction to the theory of probability (with )

Also known as
In Russian: Алекса́ндр Я́ковлевич Хи́нчин.

Rendered in French as Alexandre Khintchine.