Gelfand
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Gelfand is a surname meaning "elephant" in Yiddish language and may refer to:
- Alan Gelfand, the inventor of the ollie, a skateboarding move
- Boris Gelfand, a chess grandmaster
- Israel Gelfand, a mathematician
- Vladimir Gelfand, a Ukrainian-Jewish writer
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- Gelfand representation, in mathematics, something that allows a complete characterisation of commutative C*-algebras as algebras of continuous complex-valued functions
- Gelfand-Naimark-Segal construction
- Gelfand–Naimark theorem
- Gelfand-Mazur theorem
- Gelfand pair, a pair (G,K) consisting of a locally compact group G which is unimodular, and a subgroup K which is a compact group
- Gelfand triple, a construction designed to link the distribution (test function) and square-integrable aspects of functional analysis
- Gelfand representation, in mathematics, something that allows a complete characterisation of commutative C*-algebras as algebras of continuous complex-valued functions
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