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| Aaron Bernstein |
Aaron Bernstein (1812-1884), German Jewish scientist, author and reformer. (references) |
| Al Bernstein |
Al Bernstein is a writer, stage performer, recording artist, radio host, and boxing analyst. (references) |
| Andrew Bernstein |
Andrew Bernstein is an Objectivist philosopher and professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Purchase. He has written the CliffsNotes for Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and Anthem. Dr. Bernstein is author of The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic, and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire. He has lectured at Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, the United States Military Academy, and elsewhere. He is affiliated with the Ayn Rand Institute. (references) |
| Bernstein im Burgenland |
Bernstein is a commune in Burgenland in the district Oberwart in Austria with 2.441 inhabitants. The Hungarian name of the commune is Borostyánkö. (references) |
| Bernstein polynomial |
In the mathematical subfield of numerical analysis, a Bernstein polynomial, named after Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, is a polynomial in the Bernstein form, that is a linear combination of Bernstein basis polynomials. (references) |
| Bernstein v. United States |
Bernstein v. United States is a court case brought by Daniel J. Bernstein challenging restrictions on the export of encryption software outside of the United States. (references) |
| Charles Bernstein |
Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, critic, editor and teacher. He was one of the most prominent members of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group of poets. (references) |
| Daniel J. Bernstein |
Daniel Julius Bernstein (sometimes known simply as djb; born 1971-10-29) is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a mathematician, a cryptologist, and a programmer. Bernstein is the author of the computer software qmail and djbdns, and is a proponent of license-free software. (references) |
| David Bernstein |
David Bernstein is a professor at the George Mason University School of Law. He is one of the contributors to the weblog The Volokh Conspiracy. (references) |
| Dennis Bernstein |
Dennis Bernstein is a Jewish-American writer and activist who is notably critical of abusive and illegal policies of the Israeli government. (references) |
| Eduard Bernstein |
Eduard Bernstein (January 6 1850 - December 18 1932) was a German social democratic theoretician and politician, member of the SPD, and founder of evolutionary socialism or reformism. (references) |
| Felix Bernstein |
Felix Bernstein (1878, Halle, Germany - 1956, Zurich, Switzerland) was a mathematician known for developing a theorem of the equivalence of sets in 1897. He studied under Georg Cantor. (references) |
| Gail Lee Bernstein |
Gail Lee Bernstein (1939 - ) is a Full Professor of history at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, Arizona, USA. She specializes in the history of Japanese women, and is considered one of the pioneers in this field. (references) |
| Howard Bernstein |
Howard Bernstein (born March 2 1966 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a musician and producer who has worked with artists such as Björk, U2, and Tricky. (references) |
| Joseph Bernstein |
Joseph Milton Bernstein recruited his fellow Communist T.A. Bisson who had stopped working at the Board of Economic Warfare (BEW) and began working in the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) and in the editorial offices of Bernstein’s periodical Amerasia. Bisson passed to Bernstein copies of four documents: (a) his own report for BEW with his views on working out a plan for shipment of American troops to China; (b) a report by the Chinese embassy in Washington to its government in China; (c) a brief BEW report of April 1943 on a general evaluation of the forces of the sides on the Soviet-German front; and (d) a report by the American consul in Vladivostok. (references) |
| Kenny Bernstein |
Kenny Bernstein (born Clovis, New Mexico), is an American dragster racer, who twice won the NHRA top fuel championship and was NHRA funny car champion four times. He is the only driver to win the NHRA championship in both divisions. In 1992 he was the first drag racer to exceed 300 mph in competition. He was an innovator of corporate sponsorship in drag racing, and his team's deal with Budweiser, which earned the nickname 'Bud King', is one of the longest running sponsorship deals in motorsport. (references) |
| Leonard Bernstein |
United States conductor and composer (1918-1990). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Lewis Bernstein Namier |
Lewis Bernstein Namier (June 27 1888 - August 19 1960) was a significant British historian. He was born Ludwik Niemirowski in Wola Okrejska in what was then Austria-Hungary and is today Poland. His family were secular-minded Jewish gentry. Namier was educated at universities of Lemberg (Lviv, Ukraine), Lausanne, and the London School of Economics. At Lausanne, he heard Vilfredo Pareto lecture and whose ideas would have much influence on him. (references) |
| Morris Louis Bernstein |
Morris Louis (Morris Louis Bernstein) (1912 - 1962) was one of the many talented U.S. abstract expressionist painters to emerge in the fifties. From 1929 to 1933, he studied at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts on a scholarship, but left shortly before completing the program. He worked at various odd jobs to support himself while painting and in 1935 served as president of the Baltimore Artists’ Association. From 1936 to 1940, Louis lived in New York, where he worked in the easel division of the WPA Federal Art Project. During this period, he knew Arshile Gorky, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jack Tworkov. He also dropped his last name. (references) |
| Ossip Bernstein |
Ossip Samoilovitch Bernstein, (1882 to 1962), born in Imperial Russia in 1882 to a family of Jewish heritage, his family grew up in the anti-semitic atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia. He was one of the worlds top 10 chess masters in the world from about 1903 to World War I. During the Great War, he fled the country to France and dropped out of chess until the 1930s. Then he performed creditably and even drew a match with the then World Chess Champion and fellow emigré Alexander Alekhine +1 -1 =2. When FIDE introduced official titles in 1950, Bernstein was awarded the International Grandmaster title. (references) |
| Peter L. Bernstein |
Peter L. Berstein is the author of nine books in economics and finance plus countless articles in professional journals such as The Harvard Business Review and the Financial Analysts Journal, and in the popular press, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Worth magazine, and Bloomberg publications. He has contributed to collections of articles published by Perseus and FT Mastering, among others. (references) |
| Robert L. Bernstein |
Robert L. Bernstein was the chief executive of Random House for more than a quarter century. He is also one of the founders, and a longtime chair of Human Rights Watch. (references) |
| Rugal Bernstein |
Rugal Bernstein is a recurring antagonist (typically as a boss) in the King of Fighters fighting game series. He is often cited as a prime example of the SNK Boss Syndrome. (references) |
| Sergei Natanovich Bernstein |
Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (Russian: Сергей Натанович Бернштейн, sometimes Romanized as Bernshtein) (March 5, 1880 - October 26, 1968) was a Ukrainian mathematician who was born in Odessa, Ukraine and died in Moscow, USSR. (references) |
| Steven Bernstein |
Steven Bernstein is a jazz trumpeter from New York City. He is best known for his work in The Lounge Lizards, Sex Mob , Spanish Fly, and the Millenial Territory Orchestra. (references) |
| Steven Jesse Bernstein |
Steven Jesse Bernstein (December 4, 1950 - October 22, 1991) was an American underground poet and performance artist who is most famous for his recordings with Sub Pop Records and close relationship with William S. Burroughs. (references) |
| Theodore M. Bernstein |
Theodore M. Bernstein, was an editor at The New York Times. He wrote several books on grammar and usage, including The Careful Writer (ISBN 0684826321) and Watch Your Language (ISBN 068970531X). He was also co-author of Headlines and Deadlines (ISBN 0231048165), a manual for copy editors. (references) |
| Tom Bernstein |
Tom Bernstein a co-founder of the Chelsea Piers Sports and Entertainment Complex in Chelsea, Manhattan is also a financier of Hollywood movies and an activist lawyer in the human rights movement. He is a founding member of Human Rights First--as the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights--in 1982, and has served as its president since 1993. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
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