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Milman
Milman may refer to: People with the surname * Adolf Milman (1886–1930), Russian and French painter * David Milman (1912–1982), mathematician * Dov Milman (1919–2007), Israeli politician and diplomat * Sir Francis Milman, 1st Baronet (1746–1821), British physician * Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868), English historian, son of Francis * Mark Milman (1910–1995), Soviet pianist and composer * Pierre Milman, mathematician * Sophie Milman (born 1983), jazz vocalist * Vitali Milman (born 1939), mathematician Places * Milman, Iran * Milman, Queensland, Australia * Milman Islet Milman Islet is a small island north of Shelburne Bay in far north Queensland, Australia about 140 km North of Cape Grenville, Cape York Peninsula in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia. It is a hawksbill turtle nesting ..., an island off the coast of Queensland, Australia Other uses * Milman baronets, a British title See also * Krein–Milman theorem {{di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Milman
Adolf Izrailevich Milman (russian: Адольф Израилевич Мильман) (born c. 1886 in Kishinev (Russian Empire); died 15 January 1930 in Paris) was a Russian and France, French painter. Biography Milman was born into a large Jewish family in Kishinev, where he studied at a commercial school. In the early 1900s the family moved to Moscow, where Milman entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. From 1904 he attended the art studio of Ilya Mashkov, who soon became his good friend. In the same studio the young artist became friends with Robert Falk. From 1911 he was a member of the review board of the Jack of Diamonds (artists), Jack of Diamonds art group. His works were displayed at its group expositions in 1912–1914. In October, 1917 Milman withdrew from the Jack of Diamonds group and joined The World of Art "Mir iskusstva" (Russian: Мир иску́сства) association together with Falk, Aristarkh Lentulov and others. In 1912–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Milman
David Pinhusovich Milman (russian: Дави́д Пи́нхусович Ми́льман; 15 January 1912, Chechelnyk near Vinnytsia – 12 July 1982, Tel Aviv) was a Soviet and later Israeli mathematician specializing in functional analysis. He was one of the major figures of the Soviet school of functional analysis. In the 70s he emigrated to Israel and was on the faculty of Tel Aviv University. Milman is known for his development of functional analysis methods, particularly in operator theory, in close connection with concrete problems coming from mathematical physics, in particular differential equations and normal modes. The Krein–Milman theorem and the Milman–Pettis theorem are named after him. Milman received his Ph.D. from Odessa State University in 1939 under direction of Mark Krein. He is the father of the mathematicians Vitali Milman and Pierre Milman Pierre D. Milman (russian: Пьер Д. Мильман), born 1945 in Odessa, is a mathematician and a pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dov Milman
Dov Milman (, 16 January 1919 – 4 May 2007) was an Israeli politician and diplomat who served as a member of the Knesset for Gahal between 1969 and 1974, and as ambassador to Portugal from 1981 until 1983. Biography Born in Riga in Latvia, Milman attended a Hebrew Tarbut gymnasium joined the Betar youth movement in 1931, and became an instructor. He made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1937. He joined the Irgun, becoming commander of its Jerusalem district battalion in 1940. He also studied political science and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and attended law schools in Jerusalem and at the University of London, being certified as a lawyer in 1951. He later served as first secretary of the Israel Bar Association between 1963 and 1965. Knesset website ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Francis Milman, 1st Baronet
Sir Francis Milman, 1st Baronet, FRCP, (31 August 1746 – 24 June 1821) was an English physician. He was born the son of Francis Milman, rector of East Ogwell, Devon and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he was awarded B.A. in 1764, M.A. in 1767, M.B. in 1770, and M.D. in 1776. In 1765 he was elected to a college fellowship and in 1771 awarded a Radcliffe travelling fellowship. He was appointed physician to the Middlesex Hospital (1777–1779), and a fellow of the College of Physicians of London in 1778. He established a practice in London and in 1785 was made physician extraordinary to the king's household, becoming physician in ordinary to the king in 1806. At the College of Physicians he delivered the Gulstonian lectures on scurvy in 1780, was five times censor between 1779 and 1799, delivered the Croonian lectures in 1781, and the Harveian oration in 1782. He was elected president in 1811 and 1812 but resigned in 1813. In 1800 he was created a baronet. He died at Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hart Milman
Henry Hart Milman (10 February 1791 – 24 September 1868) was an English historian and ecclesiastic. Life He was born in London, the third son of Sir Francis Milman, 1st Baronet, physician to King George III (see Milman Baronets). Educated at Eton and at Brasenose College, Oxford, his university career was brilliant. He won the Newdigate prize with a poem on the ''Apollo Belvidere'' in 1812, was elected a fellow of Brasenose in 1814, and in 1816 won the English essay prize with his ''Comparative Estimate of Sculpture and Painting''. In 1816 he was ordained, and two years later became parish priest of St Mary's, Reading. In 1821 Milman was elected professor of poetry at Oxford; and in 1827 he delivered the Bampton lectures o''The character and conduct of the Apostles considered as an evidence of Christianity'' In 1835, Sir Robert Peel made him Rector of St Margaret's, Westminster, and Canon of Westminster, and in 1849 he became Dean of St Paul's. He was elected a Forei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Milman
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Pierre Milman
Pierre D. Milman (russian: Пьер Д. Мильман), born 1945 in Odessa, is a mathematician and a professor at the University of Toronto. Milman graduated with a B.A. from the University of Moscow in 1967. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Tel Aviv in 1975 after an interlude of several years as researcher at the Institute of Chemical Physics and then Solid State Physics in Moscow. Awards Pierre Milman won a two-year Connaught Transformative Research Grant in the 1996 competition within the Faculty of Arts and Science of the University of Toronto. In that year the grant was awarded also to the Nobel Prize laureate John Polani. Usually only one grant is awarded per year. In 1997, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was awarded a Killam Research Fellowship in 2002, and the Jeffery–Williams Prize in 2005. Family Mathematics runs in the Milman family. His father is the mathematician David Milman, who co-authored the Krein–Milman theorem. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Milman
Sophie Milman (born 1983) is a Russian-born Canadian jazz vocalist. After emigrating from Russia in the early 1990s, Milman, who is Jewish, spent most of her childhood years in Israel where she listened extensively to jazz. Her family later emigrated to Toronto, Canada. Milman's self-titled debut album was released on October 12, 2004, in Canada by Linus Entertainment and in 2006 in the United States by Koch. She graduated from the University of Toronto in 2011 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. Milman is married to lawyer, professor, and musician Casey Chisick. He was executive producer on her albums '' Make Someone Happy'' (2007) and ''Take Love Easy (Sophie Milman album), Take Love Easy '' (2009) as well as her concert DVD ''Live in Montreal'' (2008). Milman's recording of "So Long, You Fool" is used in commercials for Air Wick's Winter Collection candles. Milman won 2008 Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year for ''Make Someone Happy''. She earned a Grammy Award no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitali Milman
Vitali Davidovich Milman ( he, ויטלי מילמן; russian: Виталий Давидович Мильман) (born 23 August 1939) is a mathematician specializing in analysis. He is a professor at the Tel Aviv University. In the past he was a President of the Israel Mathematical Union and a member of the “ Aliyah” committee of Tel Aviv University. Work Milman received his Ph.D. at Kharkiv State University in 1965 under the direction of Boris Levin. In a 1971 paper, Milman gave a new proof of Dvoretzky's theorem, stating that every convex body in dimension ''N'' has a section of dimension ''d(N)'', with ''d(N)'' tending to infinity with ''N'', that is arbitrarily close to being isometric to an ellipsoid. Milman's proof gives the optimal bound ''d(N)'' ≥ const log ''N''. In this proof, Milman put forth the concentration of measure phenomenon which has since found numerous applications. Milman made important contributions to the study of Banach spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milman, Iran
Milman ( fa, ميل مان, also Romanized as Mīlmān) is a village in Eskelabad Rural District, Nukabad District Central District of Taftan County ( fa, بخش مرکزی شهرستان تفتان) is a district (bakhsh) in Taftan County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 38,372, in 8,436 families. The district ha ..., Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 27, in 12 families. References Populated places in Khash County {{Khash-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milman, Queensland
Milman is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the Milman had a population of 113 people. Geography Alligator Creek, a tributary of the Fitzroy River, forms the western boundary of the locality. The Bruce Highway and North Coast railway line pass through the south-west corner of the locality, which was served by the Milman railway station () which opened in 1913 but has since been abandoned. The land use is farming, predominantly cattle grazing. History The locality is named after its railway station, which was named Milman on 20 October 1918 having previously been known as Jardine. It is thought that the Milman name refers to public servant Hugh Miles Milman who married Katherine Maule Jardine in 1871. Jardine Provisional School opened on 11 August 1913, becoming Jardine State School on 1 December 1914. It was renamed Milman State School about 1934. In the Milman had a population of 113 people. Settlement by the German immigrants M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milman Islet
Milman Islet is a small island north of Shelburne Bay in far north Queensland, Australia about 140 km North of Cape Grenville, Cape York Peninsula in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia. It is a hawksbill turtle nesting site. See also * List of islands of Australia This is a list of selected Australian islands grouped by State or Territory. Australia has 8,222 islands within its maritime borders. Largest islands The islands larger than are: * Tasmania (Tas) ; * Melville Island, Northern Territory (NT ... References Islands on the Great Barrier Reef Uninhabited islands of Australia Islands of Far North Queensland Great Barrier Reef Marine Park {{Queensland-national-park-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
