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Kazhdan
Kazhdan, also written as Kajdan, Kazdan, Každan, is a Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Kazhdan - historian, byzantinist * David Kazhdan - mathematician. * Jerry Kazdan - mathematician See also * * * Kasdan Kasdan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Jake Kasdan (born 1974), American actor, film director, and screenwriter * Jon Kasdan (born 1979), American actor and film director *Lawrence Kasdan (born 1949), American film director, ... * Kashtan {{Surname Surnames of Jewish origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Kazhdan
Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan (; 3 September 1922 – 29 May 1997) was a Soviet and American Byzantinist. Among his publications was the three-volume ''Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium'', a comprehensive encyclopedic work containing over than 5,000 entries. Early life and education Born in Moscow, Kazhdan was educated at the Pedagogical Institute of Ufa and the University of Moscow, where he studied with the historian of medieval England, Eugene Kosminsky.Bryer, Anthony.Obituary: Alexander Kazhdan" ''The Independent''. 5 June 1997. Retrieved August 28, 2010. A post-war Soviet initiative to revive Russian-language Byzantine studies led Kazhdan to write a dissertation on the agrarian history of the late Byzantine empire (published in 1952 as ''Agrarnye otnosheniya v Vizantii XIII-XIV vv.'') Despite a growing reputation in his field, anti-Semitic prejudice in the Joseph Stalin-era Soviet academy forced Kazhdan to accept a series of positions as a provincial teacher (in Ivanovo, 1947 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Kazhdan
David Kazhdan (), born Dmitry Aleksandrovich Kazhdan (), is a Soviet and Israeli mathematician known for work in representation theory. Kazhdan is a 1990 MacArthur Fellow. Biography Kazhdan was born on 20 June 1946 in Moscow, USSR. His father is Alexander Kazhdan. He earned a doctorate under Alexandre Kirillov in 1969 and was a member of Israel Gelfand's school of mathematics. He is Jewish, and emigrated from the Soviet Union to take a position at Harvard University in 1975. He changed his name from Dmitri Aleksandrovich to David and became an Orthodox Jew around that time. In 2002, he immigrated to Israel and is now a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as a professor emeritus at Harvard. On October 6, 2013, Kazhdan was critically injured in a car accident while riding a bicycle in Jerusalem. Kazhdan has four children. His son, Eli Kazhdan, was general director of Natan Sharansky's Yisrael BaAliyah political party (now merged with Likud). Researc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasdan
Kasdan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Jake Kasdan (born 1974), American actor, film director, and screenwriter * Jon Kasdan (born 1979), American actor and film director *Lawrence Kasdan (born 1949), American film director, producer, and screenwriter * Mark Kasdan (born 1941), American screenwriter and film producer *, American actress and screenwriter * Ruth Kasdan (1918–2008), Swedish actress and singer See also * * Kazhdan * Aniq Kasdan (born 2002), Malaysian weightlifter, Kasdan is a patronymic A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. It is the male equivalent of a matronymic. Patronymics are used, b ... {{surname Surnames of Jewish origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Kazdan
Jerry Lawrence Kazdan (born 31 October 1937 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American mathematician noted for his work in differential geometry and the study of partial differential equations. His contributions include the Berger–Kazdan comparison theorem, which was a key step in the proof of the Blaschke conjecture and the classification of Wiedersehen manifolds. His best-known work, done in collaboration with Frank Warner, dealt with the problem of prescribing the scalar curvature of a Riemannian metric. Biography Kazdan received his bachelor's degree in 1959 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his master's degree in 1961 from NYU. He obtained his PhD in 1963 from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University; his thesis was entitled ''A Boundary Value Problem Arising in the Theory of Univalent Functions'' and was supervised by Paul Garabedian. He then took a position as a Benjamin Peirce Instructor at Harvard University. Since 1966, he has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kashtan
Kashtan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Dror Kashtan (born 1944), Israeli footballer and manager * Nikita Kashtan (born 2003), Russian footballer * William Kashtan (1909–1993), general secretary of the Communist Party of Canada Other uses * In Russian, the word "Kashtan" (''Каштан'') means "chestnut". * Kashtan CIWS (close-in weapon system) is a Russian anti-air system mainly used on naval ships or stationary turrets. * 1P78-1 Kashtan is a Russian military telescopic sight A telescopic sight, commonly called a scope informally, is an optical sighting device based on a refracting telescope. It is equipped with some form of a referencing pattern – known as a ''reticle'' – mounted in a focally appropriate p .... See also * {{surname, Kashtan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
