Gelfand

''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 Provided by Wikipedia