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Aleksandr Khinchin

1894 - 1959

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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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksandr Khinchin has received more than 95,070 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Aleksandr Khinchin is the 546th most popular mathematician (down from 481st in 2019), the 1,290th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,117th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Aleksandr Khinchin ranks 546 out of 1,004. Before him are Simon von Stampfer, D. R. Kaprekar, Luis Caffarelli, Auguste Kerckhoffs, Louis Nirenberg, and Maria Angela Ardinghelli. After him are Pierre Fatou, Max August Zorn, John Tate, Chen Jingrun, Jacques Herbrand, and Al-Qalqashandi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Aleksandr Khinchin ranks 146. Before him are Paul Dessau, Johan Wilhelm Rangell, J. B. Priestley, Bertha Lutz, Willem Schermerhorn, and Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. After him are Christian Schad, Mirza Davud Huseynov, Giuseppe Tucci, Magda Julin, Ivan Papanin, and Olive Thomas. Among people deceased in 1959, Aleksandr Khinchin ranks 96. Before him are Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Phetsarath Ratanavongsa, Oskar Vogt, Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife, Kafū Nagai, and Ion Gigurtu. After him are Charles Vidor, Kazimierz Bein, Edmund Gwenn, Erhard Schmidt, Galaktion Tabidze, and Alfonso Reyes.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aleksandr Khinchin ranks 1,290 out of 3,761. Before him are Yuri Lyubimov (1917), Boris Rosing (1869), Nikolai Karachentsov (1944), Andrejs Pumpurs (1841), Konstantin Savitsky (1844), and Andrey Zvyagintsev (1964). After him are Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia (1906), Pyotr Nesterov (1887), Tetyana Yablonska (1917), Dmitry of Suzdal (1322), Igor M. Diakonoff (1914), and Ivan Aksakov (1823).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Aleksandr Khinchin ranks 35. Before him are Nikolai Luzin (1883), Stanisław Leśniewski (1886), Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (1906), Solomon Lefschetz (1884), Carl Neumann (1832), and Nina Bari (1901). After him are Dmitri Egorov (1869), Boris Delaunay (1890), Aleksey Krylov (1863), Alexander Gelfond (1906), Efim Zelmanov (1955), and Alexander Esenin-Volpin (1924).

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