Gelfand
Gelfand is a surname meaning "
Yiddish language
and may refer to:
- People:
- Alan Gelfand, the inventor of the ollie, a skateboarding move
- Alan E. Gelfand, a statistician
- Boris Gelfand, a chess grandmaster
- Israel Gelfand, a mathematician,
- Mikhail Gelfand, a molecular biologist and bioinformacisist, a grandson of Israel Gelfand
- Vladimir Gelfand, a Soviet-Jewish writer
- Notions in mathematics (named after Israel Gelfand):
- the Gelfand representation, in mathematics, allows a complete characterization of commutative C*-algebras as algebras of continuous complex-valued functions
- the Gelfand–Naimark–Segal construction
- the Gelfand–Naimark theorem
- the Gelfand–Mazur theorem
- a Gelfand pair, a pair (G,K) consisting of a locally compact unimodular group G and a compact subgroup K
- a Gelfand triple, a construction designed to link the distribution (test function) and square-integrable aspects of functional analysis
See also
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