Herman Chernoff

Herman Chernoff (born July 1, 1923, New York) is an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist formerly a professor at MIT and currently working at Harvard University.^[1]

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[2]

Early life and education

Herman Chernoff's parents were Pauline and Max Chernoff, Jewish emgirants from Russia. He studied in Townsend Harris High School and graduated from Townsend Harris High School in January 1943.^[3]

• Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, 1948. Brown University.^[4]
• M.S., Applied Mathematics, 1945. Brown University.
• B.S., Mathematics, 1943. City College of New York.

See also

• Chernoff bound (also known as Chernoff's inequality)
• Chernoff face
• Chernoff's distribution

References

1. ↑ Bather, John (1996). "A conversation with Herman Chernoff". Statistical Science 11 (4): 335–350. doi:10.1214/ss/1032280306. 
2. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.
3. ↑ Chernoff biography
4. ↑ Ellen Chernoff (2005). "Education and Previous Positions". Retrieved October 7, 2008. 

External links

• Chernoff's faculty bio at Harvard
• Herman Chernoff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project