Herman Chernoff

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Name Herman Chernoff Role Applied statistician		Education Brown University Awards R. A. Fisher Lectureship

Books Elementary Decision Theory, Sequential Analysis and Optimal Design

Herman Chernoff (born July 1, 1923, New York) is an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist formerly a professor at MIT and currently working at Harvard University.

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Early life and education

Herman Chernoff's parents were Pauline and Max Chernoff, Jewish immigrants from Russia. He studied in Townsend Harris High School.

Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, 1948. Brown University.

M.S., Applied Mathematics, 1945. Brown University.

B.S., Mathematics, 1943. City College of New York.

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