Aleksandr Khinchin

Aleksandr Khinchin
Born	Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin (1894-07-19)July 19, 1894 Kondrovo, Kaluga Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	November 18, 1959(1959-11-18) (aged 65) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian, Soviet
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Moscow State University
Doctoral advisor	Nikolai Luzin
Doctoral students	Alexander Buchstab Alexander Gelfond

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".