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