James Alexander Shohat (aka Jacques Chokhate (or Chokhatte), 18 November 1886, Brest-Litovsk – 8 October 1944, Philadelphia) was an American mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania who worked on the moment problem.
"On a general formula in the theory of Tchebycheff polynomials and its applications". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (3): 569–583. 1927. MR 1501405. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1927-1501405-8. "A simple method for normalizing Tchebycheff polynomials and evaluating the elements of the allied continued fractions". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (4): 427–432. 1927. MR 1561395. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1927-04396-8. with J. Sherman: "On the numerators of the continued fraction". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 18 (3): 283–287. 1932. PMC 1076208 . PMID 16587678. doi:10.1073/pnas.18.3.283. "On the development of functions in a series of polynomials". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2): 49–82. 1935. MR 1563024. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1935-06007-0. "Mechanical quadratures, in particular, with positive coefficients". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (3): 461–496. 1937. MR 1501930. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1937-1501930-6. "A differential equation for orthogonal polynomials". Duke Math. J. 5 (2): 401–417. 1939. MR 1546133. doi:10.1215/s0012-7094-39-00534-x. with J. D. Tamarkin: The problem of moments. Mathematical Surveys, vol. 1. New York: AMS. 1943. OCLC 622772715. "On van der Pol's and non-linear differential equations". J. Appl. Phys. 15 (7): 568–574. 1944. doi:10.1063/1.1707470. 