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Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin ( July 19 , 1894 - November 18 , 1959 ) was a Russian Mathematician , who was one of the most significant people in the Soviet school of Probability Theory . He was born in village Kondrovo , Kaluga Governorate , Russia . Studying at Moscow State University , he became one of the first followers of the famous Luzin's school. In 1916 Khinchin graduated from the university and six years later became a full professor there, keeping that position until his death. Khinchin's early works focused on Real Analysis . Later he used methods of the metric theory of functions in probability theory and Number Theory . He became one of the founders of the modern probability theory, discovering Law Of The Iterated Logarithm in 1924 , achieving important results in the field of Limit Theorem s, giving a definition of a Stationary Process and laying a foundation for the theory of such processes. In number theory Khinchin made significant contributions to the metric theory of Diophantine Approximation s and established an important result for real Continued Fraction s, discovering their property, known as Khinchin's Constant . He also published several important works on Statistical Physics , where he used methods of probability theory, on Information Theory , Queuing Theory and Mathematical Analysis . In 1939 Khinchin was elected as a Correspondent Member of the Academy Of Sciences Of USSR . He was awarded the USSR State Prize (1941), Order Of Lenin , three other orders and medals. He died in Moscow , USSR . SEE ALSO
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