Derman (monastery)
Derman may refer to: * Cyrus Derman (1925-2011), American mathematician * Emanuel Derman (born 1946), South African financial mathematician * Derman (monastery), an Orthodox monastery affiliated with Ostroh Academy * Derman (film), a 2008 Turkish-language film featuring Cengiz Küçükayvaz * Derman, Iran Derman ( fa, درمن, also Romanized as Dorman and Dormen; also known as Dīr Mār and Dīrmen) is a village in Javersiyan Rural District, Qareh Chay District, Khondab County, Markazi Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic R ...

Cyrus Derman
Cyrus Derman (July 16, 1925 – April 27, 2011) was an American mathematician and amateur musician who did research in Markov decision process, stochastic processes, operations research, statistics and a variety of other fields. Early life Derman grew up in Collingdale Pennsylvania. He was the son of a grocery store owner who came to the US from Lithuania. As a young boy he was often invited to play the violin at a Philadelphia radio show for talented children. Although his initial dream was to become a concert violinist, in the end he chose to study mathematics. Indeed, after he finished his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania in music and mathematics, he went on to Columbia University for his graduate work in mathematical statistics. At Columbia he was privileged to work with many of the important US statisticians and probabilists of that time. Career After taking his Ph.D., Derman joined the Department of Industrial Engineering at Columbia University ...
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Emanuel Derman
Emanuel Derman (born 1945) is a South African-born academic, businessman and writer. He is best known as a quantitative analyst, and author of the book ''My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance''. He is a co-author of Black–Derman–Toy model, one of the first interest-rate models, and the Derman–Kani local volatility or implied tree model, a model consistent with the volatility smile. Derman, who first came to the U.S. at age 21, in 1966, is currently a professor at Columbia University and Director of its program in financial engineering. Until recently he was also the Head of Risk and a partner at KKR Prisma Capital Partners, a fund of funds. His book ''My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance'', published by Wiley in September 2004, was one of Business Week's top ten books of the year for 2004. In 2011, he published ''Models.Behaving.Badly'', a book contrasting financial models with the theories of hard science, and also containing some autobio ...
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Derman (monastery)
Derman may refer to: * Cyrus Derman (1925-2011), American mathematician * Emanuel Derman (born 1946), South African financial mathematician * Derman (monastery), an Orthodox monastery affiliated with Ostroh Academy * Derman (film), a 2008 Turkish-language film featuring Cengiz Küçükayvaz * Derman, Iran Derman ( fa, درمن, also Romanized as Dorman and Dormen; also known as Dīr Mār and Dīrmen) is a village in Javersiyan Rural District, Qareh Chay District, Khondab County, Markazi Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic R ...

Ostroh Academy
Ostroh Academy ( pl, Akademia Ostrogska) was an academy located in Ostróg, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It is considered to be the first institution of higher education in the territory of present-day Ukraine, dating to 1576 and founded by Polish nobleman of Ruthenian descent Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski. The university was closed in 1636 soon after opening the Jesuit College in Ostróg (Ostroh). History In the 16th century, all higher schools of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth were under influence of the Catholic or Protestant nobles. To counter this influence, Count Konstanty Ostrogski, one of the most influential people in the Crown of Poland (and later a major partisan of the Orthodox faith against the Union of Brest), founded a large school in his estate in Ostroh in what is now Ukraine. Ostrogski envisioned a lay school, that would however strengthen the Eastern Christian spirit in the country and prevent conversions to Protestantism and Catholicism, a process in f ...
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Derman (film)
Derman may refer to: * Cyrus Derman (1925-2011), American mathematician * Emanuel Derman (born 1946), South African financial mathematician * Derman (monastery), an Orthodox monastery affiliated with Ostroh Academy * Derman (film), a 2008 Turkish-language film featuring Cengiz Küçükayvaz * Derman, Iran Derman ( fa, درمن, also Romanized as Dorman and Dormen; also known as Dīr Mār and Dīrmen) is a village in Javersiyan Rural District, Qareh Chay District, Khondab County, Markazi Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic R ...

Cengiz Küçükayvaz
Cengiz Küçükayvaz (born 30 July 1968) is a Turkish actor who usually appears in comedic roles. Biography Cengiz Küçükayvaz graduated in Theatre from Dokuz Eylül University's Faculty of Fine Arts. He began his professional acting career at the Tuncay Özinel Theatre and the Hadi Çaman Theatre. Küçükayvaz has appeared in several films and TV series including ''Reyting Hamdi'', ''Çiçek Taksi'', ''Lalelide bir Azize'', ''Kahpe Bizans'', the rebooted ''Hababam Sınıfı'' series, ''Maskeli Beşler'' series, ''Süper Ajan K-9'' and ''Yedi Kocalı Hürmüz''. In 2008, he founded the Cengiz Küçükayvaz Theatre, named after himself. In the nineties, he also took part in the clip of Kibariye's song, "Alıştık artık". (literal translation is "We get used to it") Partial filmography *'' Hoş Memo'' (1993) *'' Çifte Vakkas'' (1993) *'' Sonradan Görmeler'' (1994) *''Çiçek Taksi'' (1995, TV Series) - Ömer Sen *'' Çılgın Bediş'' (1996, TV Series) *'' Yasemince'' (199 ...
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