Biography:Herman Chernoff
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| Born | July 1, 1923 New York City, U.S. |
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| Thesis | Studentization in testing of hypotheses (1948) |
| Doctoral advisor | Abraham Wald |
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Herman Chernoff (born July 1, 1923) is an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist. He was formerly a professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Stanford, and MIT, currently emeritus at Harvard University.[1][2]
Early life and education
Herman Chernoff's parents were Pauline and Max Chernoff, Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. He studied at Townsend Harris High School[2] and earned a B.S. in mathematics from the City College of New York in 1943.[3] He attended graduate school at Brown University, earning an M.Sc. in applied mathematics in 1945, and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1948 under the supervision of Abraham Wald.[3][4]
Recognition
Chernoff became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974,[5] and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1980.[6] In 1987, he was selected for the Wilks Memorial Award by the American Statistical Association,[7] and in 2012, he was made an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[8]
Personal life
Herman Chernoff's met his future wife, Judith, when they were both graduate students at Brown University in 1945, and married her in 1947.[9] She died at the age of 98 on June 9, 2023.[10] At the time of her death they were believed to be the oldest couple living in Massachusetts.[11]
Chernoff turned 100 on July 1, 2023.[12]
See also
- Chernoff bound (also known as Chernoff's inequality)
- Chernoff face
- Chernoff's distribution
References
- ↑ Bather, John (1996). "A conversation with Herman Chernoff". Statistical Science 11 (4): 335–350. doi:10.1214/ss/1032280306.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Herman Chernoff". MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Chernoff.html.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Herman Chernoff". Faculty directory. MIT. http://math.mit.edu/directory/profile.php?pid=43.
- ↑ "Herman Chernoff". Mathematics Genealogy Project. https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/index.php.
- ↑ "Herman Chernoff". Member Directory. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. September 2024. https://www.amacad.org/person/herman-chernoff.
- ↑ "Herman Chernoff". Member directory. National Academy of Sciences. http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/56980.html.
- ↑ "Samuel S Wilks Award of the American Statistical Association". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/Wilks_award.html.
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10
- ↑ Siliezar, Juan. "A sense of humor, giving space, trying to listen: Advice from 73 years of marriage". https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/04/after-73-years-of-marriage-their-advice-remains-the-same/.
- ↑ "Judith Chernoff OBITUARY". https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/brookline-ma/judith-chernoff-11327954.
- ↑ Stephanos, Maria (Mar 16, 2021). "Meet husband, wife believed to be oldest living couple in Massachusetts". WCVB-TV. https://www.wcvb.com/article/meet-husband-wife-believed-to-be-oldest-living-couple-in-massachusetts/35857262.
- ↑ Fortnow, Lance. "Chernoff Turns 100" (in en). https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2023/07/chernoff-turns-100.html.
External links
- Chernoff's faculty profile at Harvard.
- Chernoff's faculty profile at MIT.
- Chernoff's biography on the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Chernoff's author profile on MathSciNet.
- Chernoff's profile on Mathematics Genealogy.
- Herman Chernoff publications indexed by Google Scholar
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