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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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aleksandr Khinchin is the 498th most popular mathematician (up from 546th in 2019), the 998th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,290th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Aleksandr Khinchin ranks 498 out of 1,004. Before him are Auguste Kerckhoffs, Lazarus Fuchs, Simon von Stampfer, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Stephen Cole Kleene, and Pierre Wantzel. After him are Friedrich Robert Helmert, Issai Schur, Paul Halmos, Ian Stewart, William Kingdon Clifford, and Abraham Robinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Aleksandr Khinchin ranks 114. Before him are J. B. Priestley, Augustín Malár, Varvara Stepanova, Khawaja Nazimuddin, Frans G. Bengtsson, and E. C. Segar. After him are Werner March, Boris Pilnyak, Eduard Wagner, Henry Hazlitt, Maksim Purkayev, and Warren Weaver. Among people deceased in 1959, Aleksandr Khinchin ranks 83. Before him are Phetsarath Ratanavongsa, Luigi Sturzo, Erhard Schmidt, Kenneth Anderson, Johannes Kleiman, and Max Baer. After him are S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Jerry Unser Jr., Giovanni Pastrone, Eduard van Beinum, Štefan Tiso, and José Vasconcelos.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aleksandr Khinchin ranks 998 out of 3,761. Before him are Andrei Bubnov (1883), Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841), Andrei Sinyavsky (1925), Sergei Yutkevich (1904), Yevgeny Shaposhnikov (1942), and Beate Uhse-Rotermund (1919). After him are Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866), Yusuf Akçura (1876), Kondraty Ryleyev (1795), Yakov Protazanov (1881), Yekaterina Furtseva (1910), and Alexander Tcherepnin (1899).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Aleksandr Khinchin ranks 31. Before him are Alfred Clebsch (1833), Igor Ansoff (1918), Vladimir Smirnov (1887), Nikolai Luzin (1883), Kurt Hensel (1861), and Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (1906). After him are Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (1912), Solomon Lefschetz (1884), Evgraf Fedorov (1853), Stanisław Leśniewski (1886), Boris Delaunay (1890), and Efim Zelmanov (1955).

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