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Pomerance is the name of: * Bernard Pomerance (1940–2017), American playwright and poet * Carl Pomerance (born 1944), American mathematician * Murray Pomerance (born 1946), Canadian film scholar * Rafe Pomerance (born 1946), American environmentalist See also * Pomerants *Pomerantz Pomerantz or Pomeranz may refer to the following: * Abraham Pomerantz (1903–1982), American lawyer, father of Charlotte Pomerantz * Charles Pomerantz (1896–1973), American entomologist * Charlotte Pomerantz (born 1930), American children's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafe Pomerance
Rafe Pomerance (born July 19, 1946) is an American environmentalist. He is Chairman of Arctic 21, a network of organizations focused on communicating issues of Arctic climate change to policy-makers and the general public. Beginning in the late 1970s, he played a key role in raising awareness of the risks of climate change for United States policy-makers. Early life and education Pomerance grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, the son of Josephine (née Wertheim) and architect Ralph Pomerance. He is a grandson of Maurice Wertheim, and great-grandson of Henry Morgenthau Sr. He graduated from Cornell University in 1968, with a B.A. in History. Career After graduating from university, Pomerance served as a VISTA volunteer. He was the operating chief at Friends of the Earth for four years until 1984. From 1986 to 1993, he served as a Senior Associate at the World Resources Institute. In 1993, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment and Development ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Pomerance
Bernard Pomerance (September 23, 1940 – August 26, 2017) was an American playwright and poet whose best known work is the play ''The Elephant Man (play), The Elephant Man''. Biography Pomerance was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1940. He studied at the University of Chicago and moved to London in 1968. His first play, ''High in Vietnam, Hot Damn'', was performed at the Interaction Theatre and directed by Roland Rees. Along with Rees and David Aukin, Pomerance helped to found the theatre company Foco Novo in 1972. The name was taken from Pomerance’s play of the same title, the company’s inaugural production. For Foco Novo he adapted a new version of ''A Man’s a Man'' by Bertold Brecht and wrote ''The Elephant Man'', which was originally produced in 1977. One of the more successful and regularly revived plays to come out of the London fringe theatre, ''The Elephant Man'' was performed in repertory at Britain’s Royal National Theatre, National Theatre and several time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Pomerance
Carl Bernard Pomerance (born 1944 in Joplin, Missouri) is an American number theorist. He attended college at Brown University and later received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972 with a dissertation proving that any odd perfect number has at least seven distinct prime factors. He joined the faculty at the University of Georgia, becoming full professor in 1982. He subsequently worked at Lucent Technologies for a number of years, and then became a distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College. Contributions He has over 120 publications, including co-authorship with Richard Crandall of ''Prime numbers: a computational perspective'' (Springer-Verlag, first edition 2001, second edition 2005), and with Paul Erdős. He is the inventor of one of the integer factorization methods, the quadratic sieve algorithm, which was used in 1994 for the factorization of RSA-129. He is also one of the discoverers of the Adleman–Pomerance–Rumely primality test. Awards and honors He has won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Pomerance
Murray Pomerance is an independent Canadian film scholar and author living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and adjunct professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne. Career Pomerance was born in 1946 in Hamilton, Ontario and studied at the University of Toronto, the University of Michigan (with Kenneth Boulding and Theodore Newcomb), the New School for Social Research (with Benjamin Nelson), the State University of New York at Buffalo (with Edgar Z. Friedenberg and Warren Bennis), and York University. Pomerance has written extensively on film, cinematic experience, and performance, and has also edited and co-edited more than two dozen anthologies exploring cinema. He contributes regularly to print and online publications, including ''Film International'', '' Senses of Cinema'' and FLOW. In addition, Pomerance is editor of the “Techniques of the Moving Image” series at Rutgers University Press and the “Horizons of Cinema” series at Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pomerants
Pomerants is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Grigory Pomerants (1918–2013), Russian philosopher and cultural theorist * Marko Pomerants (born 1964), Estonian politician See also * Pomerance * Pomerantz Pomerantz or Pomeranz may refer to the following: * Abraham Pomerantz (1903–1982), American lawyer, father of Charlotte Pomerantz * Charles Pomerantz (1896–1973), American entomologist * Charlotte Pomerantz (born 1930), American children's ... {{surname Estonian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
