  The paper is devoted to the contribution in the Probability Theory of the
well-known Soviet mathematician Alexander Yakovlevich Khintchine (1894-1959).
  Several of his results are described, in particular those fundamental results
on the infinitely divisible distributions. Attention is paid also to his
interaction with Paul Levy. The content of the paper is related to our joint
book The Legacy of A.Ya. Khintchine's Work in Probability Theory, published in
2010 by Cambridge Scientific Publishers.
