Aleksandr Khinchin

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human mathematician probabilist

Aleksandr Khinchin was a prominent Russian mathematician known for his foundational contributions to probability theory, number theory, and information theory.

Aliases (1)

Alexander Khinchin ×1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human → mathematician → probabilist →
countryOfCitizenship	Russian Empire → Soviet Union →
educatedAt	Moscow State University →
employer	Moscow State University →
familyName	Khinchin →
fieldOfWork	ergodic theory → information theory → metric number theory → number theory → probability theory → statistical mechanics →
givenName	Aleksandr NERFINISHED →
influenced	Soviet school of probability theory → development of ergodic theory → development of information theory →
influencedBy	Andrei Kolmogorov → surface form: "Andrey Kolmogorov"
languageOfWorkOrName	Russian →
memberOf	Moscow Mathematical Society →
nativeLanguage	Russian →
notableIdea	Khinchin's constant → Khinchin's law of the iterated logarithm → Khinchin's constant → surface form: "Khinchin's theorem on continued fractions" axiomatic foundations of probability → early work in information theory → ergodic foundations of statistical mechanics →
notableStudent	Andrei Kolmogorov → surface form: "Andrey Kolmogorov" Boris Gnedenko →
notableWork	Continued Fractions → Khinchin's constant → Khinchin's law of the iterated logarithm → Khinchin's representation theorem → Continued Fractions → surface form: "Khinchin's theorem on continued fractions" Khinchin–Kolmogorov theorem → Khinchin–Lévy constant → Khinchin–Pollaczek formula → Limit Laws for Sums of Independent Random Variables → Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory → Mathematical Foundations of Statistical Mechanics → method of least squares → surface form: "The Method of Least Squares" Foundations of the Theory of Probability → surface form: "The Theory of Probability" Three Pearls of Number Theory → Works on ergodic theory →
occupation	mathematician →
sexOrGender	male →
studentOf	Dmitri Egorov NERFINISHED →
workLocation	Moscow →

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Andrei Kolmogorov → influenced → Aleksandr Khinchin →

this entity surface form: "Alexander Khinchin"

Shannon–Khinchin axioms → namedAfter → Aleksandr Khinchin →