Pinsker
Pinsker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Leon Pinsker (1821–1891), Russian physician and Zionist activist * Mark Semenovich Pinsker (1925–2003), Russian mathematician * Scott Pinsker, filmmaker, talk show host, and author * Simhah Pinsker Simhah Pinsker (March 17, 1801 – October 29, 1864) (Hebrew: שמחה פינסקר) was a Polish-Jewish scholar and archeologist born at Tarnopol, Galicia. He received his early Hebrew education in the cheider and from his father, Shebaḥ ha-L ...

Leon Pinsker
yi, לעאָן פינסקער , birth_date = , birth_place = Tomaszów Lubelski, Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire , death_date = , death_place = Odessa, Russian Empire , known_for = Zionism , occupation = Physician, political activist , education = Law , alma_mater = Odessa University , movement = Hovevei Zion (Zionism) Leon Pinsker ( yi, לעאָן פינסקער, ''Yehudah Leib Pinsker''; russian: Лев (Леон) Семёнович or Йехуда Лейб Пинскер, ''Lev Semyonovich Pinsker''; 1821–1891) was a physician, and Zionist activist. Earlier in life he had originally supported the cultural assimilation of Jews in the Russian Empire. He was himself born in the town of Tomaszów Lubelski in the southeastern border region of the Kingdom of Poland, and educated in Odessa, where he studied law but was unable to practice because of restrictions on occupations available to Jews. He was a supporter of equal rights under the law for Jews, but ...
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Scott Pinsker
Scott Pinsker is a filmmaker, talk-show host, author and celebrity publicist. He has written for Foxnews.com, ''The Washington Times'', Breitbart, ''Jewish World Review'', and ''Bulldog Reporter''. He was the creator and executive producer of '' National Lampoon's Strip Poker'' in 2005, and also appeared in Academy Award-nominated director Brett Morgen's political film ''Ollie's Army'' and the Academy Award-nominated documentary ''A Perfect Candidate''. His novel, ''The Second Coming: A Love Story'', was released in June 2014. Early life and education Pinsker was a College Republican leader at James Madison University in the 1990s. His exploits, which included a "hostile takeover" of the rival political organization Clean Up Congress, was memorably showcased in director Brett Morgen's film, ''Ollie's Army''. Career After graduating from George Mason University School of Law, Pinsker hosted ''The Stretch'' for WTMA radio in Charleston, South Carolina, from 2000 to 2001. Amo ...
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Mark Semenovich Pinsker
Mark Semenovich Pinsker (russian: Марк Семено́вич Пи́нскер; April 24, 1925 – December 23, 2003) or Mark Shlemovich Pinsker (russian: Марк Шлемо́вич Пи́нскер) was a noted Russian mathematician in the fields of information theory, probability theory, coding theory, ergodic theory, mathematical statistics, and communication networks. Pinsker studied stochastic processes under A. N. Kolmogorov in the 1950s, and later worked at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems (IITP), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. His accomplishments included a classic paper on the entropy theory of dynamical systems which introduced the maximal partition with zero entropy, later known as Pinsker's partition. His work in mathematical statistics was devoted mostly to the applications of information theory, including asymptotically sufficient statistics for parameter estimation and nonparametric estimation; Pinsker's inequality is named after ...
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