Gelfand

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Gelfand is a surname meaning "elephant" in the Yiddish language and may refer to:People: Alan Gelfand, the inventor of the ollie, a skateboarding move Alan E. Gelfand, a statistician Boris Gelfand, a chess grandmaster Israel Gelfand, a mathematician, Mikhail Gelfand, a molecular biologist and bioinformacisist, a grandson of Israel Gelfand Vladimir Gelfand, a Soviet-Jewish writer Notions in mathematics (named after Israel Gelfand): the Gelfand representation, in mathematics, allows a complete characterization of commutative C*-algebras as algebras of continuous complex-valued functions the Gelfand–Naimark–Segal construction the Gelfand–Naimark theorem the Gelfand–Mazur theorem a Gelfand pair, a pair (G,K) consisting of a locally compact unimodular group G and a compact subgroup K a Gelfand triple, a construction designed to link the distribution (test function) and square-integrable aspects of functional analysis

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