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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]
Chernoff faces, invented by applied mathematician, statistician, and physicist Herman Chernoff in 1973, display multivariate data in the shape of a human face. The individual parts, such as eyes, ears, mouth, and nose represent values of the variables by their shape, size, placement, and orientation.
In his paper, Chernoff characterized the distribution through an analytic representation through the heat equation with suitable boundary conditions. Initial attempts at approximating Chernoff's distribution via solving the heat equation, however, did not achieve satisfactory precision due to the nature of the boundary conditions. [ 5 ]
The bound is commonly named after Herman Chernoff who described the method in a 1952 paper, [5] though Chernoff himself attributed it to Herman Rubin. [6] In 1938 Harald Cramér had published an almost identical concept now known as Cramér's theorem .
Chernoff may be either a Jewish surname, meaning "descendent of Charna" [1] or a German-language transliteration of the Russian surname Chernov. Notable people with the surname include: Herman Chernoff (born 1923), American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist
Chernoff bound, a bound on the tail distribution of sums of independent random variables, named for Herman Chernoff but due to Herman Rubin. [20] Cobb–Douglas, a production function named after Paul H. Douglas and Charles W Cobb, developed earlier by Philip Wicksteed.
Herman Chernoff (born 1923), applied mathematics and statistics [103] Alexey Chervonenkis (1938–2014), mathematician and computer scientist; David Chudnovsky (born 1947), mathematician and engineer [104] Gregory Chudnovsky (born 1952), mathematician and engineer [104] Maria Chudnovsky (born 1977), graph theory and combinatorial optimization [9]
Herman Chernoff (Ph.D. 1948) – Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, MIT; known for the Chernoff bound, Chernoff distribution and Chernoff face; Kathleen E. Cullen (Sc.B. 1984) – Raj and Neera Singh Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University