Paul Robert Chernoff (21 June 1942, Philadelphia – 17 January 2017)[1] was an American mathematician, specializing in functional analysis and the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics.[2] He is known for Chernoff's Theorem, a mathematical result in the Feynman path integral formulation of quantum mechanics.[3]
- ^ biographical information from American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ "Obituary. Paul Chernoff". San Francisco Chronicle. 2 April 2017.
- ^ Butko, Yana A. (2015). "Chernoff approximation of subordinate semigroups and applications". Stochastics and Dynamics. 18 (3): 1850021. arXiv:1512.05258. doi:10.1142/S0219493718500211. S2CID 119146783.