Mathematicians Forced to Philosophize: An Introduction to Khinchin's Paper on von Mises' Theory of Probability (2004)
What follows shall provide an introduction to a predominantly philosophical and polemical, but historically revealing, paper on the foundations of the theory of probability. The leading Russian probabilist Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin (1894--1959) (see fig. 1) wrote the paper in the late 1930s, commenting on a slightly older, but still competing approach to probability theory by Richard von Mises. Together with the even more influential Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov (1903--1987), who was nine years his junior, Khinchin had revolutionized probability theory around 1930 by introducing the modern measure-theoretic approach, which is still standard today and which allowed for a sufficiently general treatment of important new notions such as stochastic processes. This development had its first culmination in Kolmogorov's booklet, Grundbegriffe der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung, written in German in 1933, which has exerted an enormous influence world wide.
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Article Gnedenko, B. V. (2004) On A. Ya. Khinchin's paper `R. Mises' Frequentist Theory and the Modern Concepts of the Theory of Probability'. Science in Context (p. 391).
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