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Wasserstein Fellows
Wasserstein is a surname and can refer to: * Abraham Wasserstein (1921–1995), a German-born British and Israeli classicist * Bernard Wasserstein (born 1948), a British historian * Bruce Wasserstein (1947–2009), an American former investment banker and former CEO of Lazard * Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006), an American playwright * Leonid Nasonovich Vasershtein, a Russian-American mathematician It is also used to name: * Wasserstein metric, a mathematical distance measure * Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, an investment bank, part of Dresdner Bank Dresdner Bank AG () was a German bank, founded in 1872 in Dresden, then headquartered in Berlin from 1884 to 1945 and in Frankfurt from 1963 onwards after a postwar hiatus. Long Germany's second-largest bank behind Deutsche Bank, it was eventually ... * Wasserstein Perella & Co., an investment bank built by Bruce Wasserstein and Joseph R. Perella {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Wasserstein
Abraham "Addi" Wasserstein (; 5 October 1921 – 20 July 1995) was a German-born British and Israeli classicist, a professor of classics at the University of Leicester in the UK and then at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Early life Wasserstein was born in born Frankfurt am Main in Germany on 5 October 1921. His parents were Galician; his father was a raincoat manufacturer in Berlin. Wasserstein was educated at a Jewish school in Berlin, although his education was disrupted by the rise of Nazism in Germany. As a Jew his life was endangered due to the virulent antisemitism, and he was among those Jews expelled towards Poland on 28 October 1938. Denied entry by the Poles, he spent a year in a camp on the border at Zbąszyń, before leaving for Rome in later summer 1939 and then to Turkey, and finally Palestine in 1941, where he met his wife-to-be, Margaret ("Macca"), a fellow refugee. Academic career Wasserstein came to Britain at the end of World War II, in 1946, gaining a BA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Wasserstein
Bernard Wasserstein (born 22 January 1948) is a British and American historian. He taught at universities in the United States and the United Kingdom from 1976-2014. Now retired, he is an emeritus professor of the University of Chicago. Wasserstein is the author of 13 books including ''The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln'' (1988), ''On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War'' (2012), ''The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews'' (2014), and the latest ''A Small Town in Ukraine: The Place we came from, the place we went back to'' (2023). His books have been translated into French, German, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew, Chinese, Vietnamese, Hungarian, and Dutch. Early life Bernard Wasserstein was born in London on 22 January 1948. Wasserstein's father, Abraham Wasserstein (1921–1995), born in Frankfurt, was Professor of Classics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His mother, Margaret (née Ecker, 1921–2017), was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Wasserstein
Bruce Jay Wasserstein (December 25, 1947 – October 14, 2009) was an American investment banker, businessman, and writer. He was prominent in the mergers and acquisitions industry, credited with working on 1,000 transactions with a total value of approximately $250 billion. Early life and education Wasserstein was born and raised in Midwood, Brooklyn, New York, the son of Lola (née Schleifer) and Morris Wasserstein. His father, a Ashkenazi Jew, Jewish immigrant from Second Polish Republic, pre-World War II Poland, settled in New York City and started a ribbon company. His maternal grandfather was Simon Schleifer, a Jewish teacher in the yeshiva in Wloclawek, Poland who later immigrated to Paterson, New Jersey and became a Hebrew school principal. Wasserstein had four siblings: businesswoman Sandra Wasserstein Meyer (died in 1998); Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein (whose daughter, Lucy Jane, he was raising at the time of his death); Abner Wasserstein (died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazard
Lazard Inc. (formerly known as Lazard Ltd and Lazard Frères & Co.) is a financial advisory and asset management firm that engages in investment banking, asset management and other financial services, primarily with institutional clients. It is the world's largest independent investment bank, with principal executive offices in New York City, Paris and London. Lazard was founded in 1848 and operates from 41 cities across 26 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Central and South America. The firm provides advice on mergers and acquisitions, strategic matters, restructuring and capital structure, capital raising and corporate finance, as well as asset management services to corporations, partnerships, institutions, governments and individuals. History Early years On July 12, 1848, three French brothers, Alexandre Lazard, Lazare Lazard, and Simon Lazard, founded Lazard Frères & Co. as a dry goods merchant store in New Orleans, Louisiana. By 1851, Simon and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright. She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play '' The Heidi Chronicles''. Biography Early years Wasserstein was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, the daughter of Morris Wasserstein, a wealthy textile executive, and his wife, Lola (née Liska) Schleifer, who moved to the United States from Poland when her father was accused of being a spy."Wendy Wasserstein" jwa.org, accessed June 29, 2014 Wasserstein "once described her mother as being like ' Auntie Mame'". Lola Wasserstein reportedly inspired some of her daughter's characters. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Nasonovich Vasershtein
Leonid Nisonovich Vaserstein () is a Russian- American mathematician, currently Professor of Mathematics at Penn State University. His research is focused on algebra and dynamical systems. He is well known for providing a simple proof of the Quillen–Suslin theorem, a result in commutative algebra, first conjectured by Jean-Pierre Serre in 1955, and then proved by Daniel Quillen and Andrei Suslin in 1976. Leonid Vaserstein got his Master's degree and doctorate in Moscow State University, where he was until 1978. He then moved to Europe and the United States. Alternate forms of the last name: Vaseršteĭn, Vasershtein, Wasserstein. The Wasserstein metric was named after him by R.L. Dobrushin in 1970. Biography Leonid Vaserstein grew up in the Soviet Union. In secondary school he won the second prize in the All-Russian High School Mathematical Olympiad. Vaserstein got his undergraduate, masters (1966), and doctoral degrees (1969) in mathematics from Moscow State University, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasserstein Metric
In mathematics, the Wasserstein distance or Kantorovich– Rubinstein metric is a distance function defined between probability distributions on a given metric space M. It is named after Leonid Vaseršteĭn. Intuitively, if each distribution is viewed as a unit amount of earth (soil) piled on ''M'', the metric is the minimum "cost" of turning one pile into the other, which is assumed to be the amount of earth that needs to be moved times the mean distance it has to be moved. This problem was first formalised by Gaspard Monge in 1781. Because of this analogy, the metric is known in computer science as the earth mover's distance. The name "Wasserstein distance" was coined by R. L. Dobrushin in 1970, after learning of it in the work of Leonid Vaseršteĭn on Markov processes describing large systems of automata (Russian, 1969). However the metric was first defined by Leonid Kantorovich in ''The Mathematical Method of Production Planning and Organization'' (Russian original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
SG Kleinwort Hambros is a private bank owned by Société Générale that offers financial services from offices throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Gibraltar. History In June 2016, Société Générale acquired Kleinwort Benson from Oddo & Cie. It merged Kleinwort Benson with its existing private banking subsidiary Hambros Bank, SG Hambros in November 2016 to form Kleinwort Hambros. Mouhammed Choukeir was appointed CEO in April 2020. References Economy of the City of London Investment banks Banks established in 2016 Financial services companies established in 2016 Banks of the United Kingdom {{UK-bank-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dresdner Bank
Dresdner Bank AG () was a German bank, founded in 1872 in Dresden, then headquartered in Berlin from 1884 to 1945 and in Frankfurt from 1963 onwards after a postwar hiatus. Long Germany's second-largest bank behind Deutsche Bank, it was eventually acquired by Commerzbank in May 2009. 1872-1933 The Dresdner Bank was established on through the conversion of , a Dresden-based private bank founded in 1771, on the advice of banker Eugen Gutmann. The bank's founding consortium of investors consisted of (Leipzig), Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft (Berlin), (Frankfurt), (Frankfurt) and (Hamburg), with an initial capital of 8 million Thalers (24 million Marks) and 30 employees in Wilsdruffer Strasse in Dresden. Gutmann became chairman of the new entity's board and led it until his retirement in 1920. In the 1870s, the Dresdner Bank acquired smaller regional institutes and several banks. In 1881, it opened a branch in Berlin, whose activity quickly exceeded the nominal head office in Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasserstein Perella & Co
Wasserstein is a surname and can refer to: * Abraham Wasserstein (1921–1995), a German-born British and Israeli classicist * Bernard Wasserstein (born 1948), a British historian * Bruce Wasserstein (1947–2009), an American former investment banker and former CEO of Lazard * Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006), an American playwright * Leonid Nasonovich Vasershtein, a Russian-American mathematician It is also used to name: * Wasserstein metric, a mathematical distance measure * Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, an investment bank, part of Dresdner Bank Dresdner Bank AG () was a German bank, founded in 1872 in Dresden, then headquartered in Berlin from 1884 to 1945 and in Frankfurt from 1963 onwards after a postwar hiatus. Long Germany's second-largest bank behind Deutsche Bank, it was eventually ... * Wasserstein Perella & Co., an investment bank built by Bruce Wasserstein and Joseph R. Perella {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
