Chernoff is a Jewish surname, meaning "descendent of Charna."[1] Notable people with the surname include:
- Herman Chernoff (born 1923), American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist
- Chernoff bound, also called Chernoff's inequality
- Chernoff face
- Chernoff's distribution
- Maxine Chernoff (born 1952), American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor
- Mike Chernoff (disambiguation), multiple people
- Paul Chernoff (1942–2017), American mathematician
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Kaganoff, B. C. (1996). A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their History. J. Aronson. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-4616-2720-3.
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