What is "schoof"

Schoof may refer to:

• 17958 Schoof (1999 JE33), a Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1999
• Manfred Schoof (born 1936), German jazz trumpet player
• Schoof–Elkies–Atkin algorithm, extension of Schoof's algorithm by Noam Elkies and A. O. L. Atkin to improve its efficiency
• Schoof's algorithm, efficient algorithm to count points on elliptic curves over finite fields
• Sebastian Schoof (born 1980), German football player