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MATHEMATICIAN

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 87,088 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Aleksandr Khinchin is the 482nd most popular mathematician (up from 545th in 2019), the 1,119th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,147th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Aleksandr Khinchin ranks 482 out of 823Before him are Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Jean Leray, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Yves Meyer, David Mumford, and Erik Ivar Fredholm. After him are Louis Nirenberg, Nina Bari, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Jakob Hermann, Harold Jeffreys, and Paul Halmos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Aleksandr Khinchin ranks 131Before him are Boris Pilnyak, Carlos Luz, Surya Sen, Maksim Purkayev, Eduard Wagner, and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. After him are Ivan Papanin, Harold Innis, Magda Julin, Olive Thomas, Tibor Déry, and C. R. Swart. Among people deceased in 1959, Aleksandr Khinchin ranks 85Before him are José Vasconcelos, Bak Jungyang, George Albert Smith, Henri Vidal, Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife, and Giovanni Pastrone. After him are Kafū Nagai, Charles Vidor, Edmund Gwenn, Charles Starkweather, Bernard Berenson, and Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aleksandr Khinchin ranks 1,119 out of 3,262Before him are Yevgeny Grishin (1931), Nikolay Kamov (1902), Alexander Petrov (1799), Paul Gorguloff (1895), Dmitry Laptev (1701), and Boris Parygin (1930). After him are Alexander Miasnikian (1886), Vera Alentova (1942), Nina Bari (1901), Semyon Chelyuskin (1700), Boris Podolsky (1896), and Vladimir Filatov (1875).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Aleksandr Khinchin ranks 32Before him are Yakov Sinai (1935), Vladimir Smirnov (1887), Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (1906), Kurt Hensel (1861), Stanisław Leśniewski (1886), and Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (1912). After him are Nina Bari (1901), Boris Delaunay (1890), Dmitri Egorov (1869), Solomon Lefschetz (1884), Evgraf Fedorov (1853), and Aleksey Krylov (1863).