Herman Chernoff
Herman Chernoff · Science & Medicine
Statistics; the Chernoff bound and Chernoff faces
1923, New York City, United States — 2026, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
United States
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Herman Chernoff was an American applied mathematician and statistician known for the Chernoff bound, a fundamental exponential tail inequality widely used in probability, statistics and computer science, and for 'Chernoff faces', a method of visualizing multivariate data. He was Jewish, the son of Jewish immigrants, and taught at Stanford, MIT and Harvard.
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Statistics; the Chernoff bound and Chernoff faces
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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