Subject: Re: [HM] Khinchin
From: Dave L. Renfro (dlrenfro@gateway.net)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 19:32:06 EST
Sandy Zabell <zabell@math.nwu.edu>
[Historia-Matematica Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:23:06 -0600 (EST)]
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/historia_matematica/serflelsnon
wrote
> A graduate student has asked me about biographical resources
> that are available for A. Khinchin, the Russian probabilist.
> That is, life, influences, students, etc. I told him I would
> raise the question with this list. Any information would be
> appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Sandy Zabell
B. V. Gnedenko and A. N. Kolmogorov, "Aleksandr Yakovlevich
Khinchin (1894-1959) Obituary", Russian Math. Surveys
15(4) (1960), 93-106.
B. V. Gnedenko, "Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin - Obituary"
[translated by Richard A. Silverman], Theory of Probability
and its Applications 5(1) (1960), 1-4.
One can also find information about Khinchin scattered throughout
the following book:
Smilka Zdravkovska and Peter L. Duren (editors), GOLDEN YEARS
OF MOSCOW MATHEMATICS, History of Mathematics 6, Amer. Math.
Soc. and London Math. Soc., 1993. [QA 27 .R8G65 1993]
Note also the following variations on Khinchin's name (probably
not a complete list; these just happen to be those I've come
across in the literature):
Khintchine; Hincin; Chincin
The following references are given at
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/References/Khinchin.html
B. V. Gnedenko, Biography of Khinchin, The Teaching of Mathematics
(London, 1968).
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin (1894-1959) (Russian), Mat. v Shkole
(4) (1984), i.
H. Cramer, A I Khinchin's work in mathematical probability, Ann.
Math. Statist. 33 (1962), 1227-1237.
J. L. Doob, Appreciation of Khinchin, Proc. 4th Berkeley Sympos.
Math. Statist. and Prob. Vol. II (Berkeley, 1961), 17-20.
B. V. Gnedenko, Alexander Iacovlevich Khinchin, Proc. 4th Berkeley
Sympos. Math. Statist. and Prob. Vol. II (Berkeley, 1961), 1-15.
V. A. Nikiforovskii, Mathematician, teacher and organizer (on the
centenary of the birth of A Ya Khinchin) (Russian), Vestnik Ross.
Akad. Nauk 64 (12) (1994), 1130-1133.
Dave L. Renfro
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