biography
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Khinchin, Alexander Yakovlevich
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1959)
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in Kondrovo, W Russia. He studied at Moscow University, and became professor there in 1927. With Andrei Kolmogorov he founded the Soviet school of probability theory, and he also worked in analysis, number theory, statistical mechanics, and information theory. |
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