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Spivak
Spivak or Spivack is a surname of Ukrainian language origin, meaning ''singer''. It is also common among Ukrainian Jews, in which case it refers to cantor. The name may refer to: * Charlie Spivak (1907–1982), American trumpeter and bandleader *David Spivak (born 1978), American mathematician * Elye Spivak (1890–1950), Soviet linguist *Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 1942), Indian literary critic and professor at Columbia University * Gordon Spivack (1928–2000), American antitrust lawyer and Justice Department official *John L. Spivak (1897–1981), American communist reporter and author * Lawrence Spivak (1900–1994), American journalist and publisher * Lori Spivak (contemporary), Canadian jurist from Manitoba *Marla Spivak (born 1955), American entomologist and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship *Maryana Spivak (born 1985), Russian actress * Max Spivak (1906–1981), American artist * Michael D. Spivak (1940–2020), American mathematician and author *Mira Spivak (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 24 February 1942) is an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic. She is a University Professor at Columbia University and a founding member of the establishment's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Considered one of the most influential postcolonial intellectuals, Spivak is best known for her essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" and her translation of and introduction to Jacques Derrida's '' De la grammatologie''. She has also translated many works of Mahasweta Devi into English, with separate critical notes on Devi's life and writing style, notably ''Imaginary Maps'' and ''Breast Stories.'' Spivak was awarded the 2012 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for being "a critical theorist and educator speaking for the humanities against intellectual colonialism in relation to the globalized world." In 2013, she received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award given by the Republic of India. Although associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Spivak
Michael David Spivak (25 May 19401 October 2020)Biographical sketch in Notices of the AMS', Vol. 32, 1985, p. 576. was an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry, an expositor of mathematics, and the founder of Publish-or-Perish Press. Spivak was the author of the five-volume ''A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry''. Biography Spivak was born in Queens, New York (state), New York. He received an Bachelor of Arts, A.B. from Harvard University in 1960, while in 1964 he received a Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D. from Princeton University under the supervision of John Milnor, with thesis ''On Spaces Satisfying Poincaré Duality''. In 1985 Spivak received the Leroy P. Steele Prize. Spivak lectured on elementary physics. Spivak's book, ''Physics for Mathematicians: Mechanics I'' (published December 6, 2010), contains the material that these lectures stemmed from and more. Spivak was also the designer of the MathTime Professional 2 fonts (which are wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Spivak
Lawrence Edmund Spivak (June 11, 1900 – March 9, 1994) was an American publisher and journalist who was best known as the co-founder, producer and host of the prestigious public affairs program ''Meet the Press''. He and journalist Martha Rountree founded the program as promotion for Spivak's magazine, ''The American Mercury'', and it became the longest-running continuous network series in television history. During his 28 years as panelist and moderator of ''Meet the Press'', Spivak was known for his pointed questioning of policy makers.Burrell, Cassandra, "TV News Show Pioneer Dies at 93"; The Associated Press, March 10, 1994 Life and career Lawrence E. Spivak was born June 11, 1900, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. In 1921 he graduated cum laude from Harvard University and began his career in publishing as business manager for ''Antiques (magazine), Antiques'' magazine. He married psychologist Charlotte Beir Ring in 1924, and together they had two children. From 1930 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Spivak
Charlie Spivak (February 17, 1907 – March 1, 1982) was an American trumpeter and bandleader, best known for his big band in the 1940s. Early life The details of Spivak's birth are unclear. Some sources place it in Ukraine in 1907, and that his family emigrated to settle in New Haven, Connecticut while he was a child. According to his personal papers, the former scenario is correct. He learned to play trumpet and played in his high school band, going on to work with local groups before joining Johnny Cavallaro's orchestra. Big band era and style He played with Paul Specht's band for most of 1924 to 1930, then spent time with Ben Pollack (1931–1934), the brothers Tommy Dorsey, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey (1934–1935), and Ray Noble (musician), Ray Noble (1935–1936). He played on "Solo Hop" in 1935 by Glenn Miller and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. He spent 1936 and 1937 mostly working as a studio musician with Gus Arnheim, Glenn Miller, Raymond Scott's radio orchest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Spivak
Sidney Joel Spivak, (May 23, 1928 – July 8, 2002) was a Manitoba politician. He was a Cabinet minister in the governments of Dufferin Roblin, Walter Weir and Sterling Lyon, and was himself leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba (PCs) from 1971 to 1975. Spivak was born to Jewish parents, Malick and Rose Spivak, in Winnipeg, and was educated at the University of Manitoba and Harvard University. He worked as a barrister, and also became Vice-President of Golden Age Beverages Limited and Mathers Investments Limited. In 1955, Spivak married Mira Steele; they had three children together. He was named Queen's Counsel in 1966. Spivak was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 1966 provincial election, in the southwest Winnipeg riding of River Heights. A Progressive Conservative, Spivak was appointed Minister of Industry and Commerce in Dufferin Roblin's government. He continued to hold this position after Walter Weir became pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Spivak
David Isaac Spivak is an American mathematician and senior scientist at the Topos Institute. He has worked on applications of category theory, in particular ologs and operadic compositionality of dynamical systems. He authored and coauthored the introductory texts on category theory and its applications, ''Category Theory for the Sciences'' and ''An Invitation to Applied Category Theory''. Early life and education Spivak received his PhD in mathematics from UC Berkeley in 2007 under the supervision of Peter Teichner and Jacob Lurie. His thesis was on derived manifolds, Spivak worked as a postdoc at the University of Oregon and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Work Spivak and Robert Kent developed a human-readable categorical system of knowledge representation called ologs. These were applied, in a series of collaborations with the materials scientist Markus Buehler, to different problems in that materials science. Ologs have been also used by researchers at NIST. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elye Spivak
Eliyahu "Elye" Spivak (, ; 10 December 1890 – 4 April 1950) was a Soviet Jewish linguist, philologist, and pedagogue. Biography Spivak was born to a religious Jewish family in Vasilkov, Kiev Governorate in the Russian Empire. He survived the 1919 Vasilkov pogroms, in which Symon Petliura's armies massacred over fifty Jews. Spivak worked as a teacher in various cities, including Vasilkov, Glukhov, Kiev, and Kharkov, and was appointed professor of Yiddish linguistics at the Odessa Pedagogical Institute in 1925. Spivak published some fifty Yiddish textbooks and teaching aids, in collaboration with David Hofstein and others, and co-edited the pedagogical journal ''Ratnbildung'' ('Soviet Education') from 1929 to 1931. Following Nochum Shtif's death in 1933, Spivak was appointed director of the linguistics section of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences' Institute for Jewish Proletarian Culture () and editor of its journal, ''Afn shprakhfront'' ('On the Language Fron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marla Spivak
Marla Spivak (born 1955) is an American entomologist, and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota specializing in apiculture and social insects. Career and research Spivak graduated with a B.A. from Humboldt State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. She is particularly well known for her work breeding lines of honey bees that detect and quickly remove diseased larvae and pupae, which is called hygienic behavior. She was instrumental in setting up the first bee Tech-Transfer Team in the United States, which continues to help honey bee queen breeders select for disease resistance traits. More recently, she has begun studying the role of resins, which bees collect and mix with wax to make propolis coatings on the inside of their hives, as an example of honey bee social immunity. Her lab also studies the effect of the surrounding landscape on the health and nutrition of both honey bees and native bees. Awards She was awarded a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spivak Pronoun
The Spivak pronouns are a set of gender-neutral pronouns in English promulgated on the virtual community ''LambdaMOO'' based on pronouns used in a book by American mathematician Michael Spivak. Though not in widespread use, they have been employed in writing for gender-neutral language by those who wish to avoid the standard terms "he/she" or singular they. Three variants of the Spivak pronouns are in use, Rogers (1890), Elverson (1975), and LambdaMOO (1991), highlighted in the declension table below. The original ''ey'' has been argued to be preferable to ''e'', because the latter would be pronounced the same as ''he'' in those contexts where ''he, him, his'' loses its h sound. History The precise history of the Spivak pronouns is unclear, since they appear to have been independently created multiple times, each time likely without knowledge of the previous. The first recorded use of the pronouns was in a January 1890 editorial by one James Rogers, who derives ''e'', ''es'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryana Spivak
Maryana Timofeevna Spivak (russian: Марьяна Тимофеевна Спивак; born 23 March 1985) is a Russian film and television actress known for the 2017 film ''Loveless (film), Loveless''. She is the granddaughter of actress Zhanna Prokhorenko and daughter of . and studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School. For director Andrey Zvyagintsev's ''Loveless'', the crew spent four months on casting the character Zhenya, though Spivak was an early candidate, eventually successful. Spivak said she took the opportunity for a starring role in a film and the chance to work with Zvyagintsev. For ''Loveless'', Spivak was nominated for Best Actress at the Russian Guild of Film Critics awards. Filmography Film Television References External links * 1985 births 21st-century Russian actresses Living people Russian film actresses Russian voice actresses Russian television actresses Russian stage actresses Actresses from Moscow Moscow Art Theatre School alumni {{Russ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Spivak
Mira Spivak ( Steele; born July 12, 1934) is a former member of the Canadian Senate representing the province of Manitoba. Born in Rivne, Ukraine (then in Poland), Spivak received a Bachelor of Arts, Honours Degree in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Manitoba. She was appointed to the Senate on the recommendation of then-Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in 1986 as a Progressive Conservative (PC). She refused to join the Conservative Party of Canada when the PC Party merged with the Canadian Alliance in 2003 and subsequently left the Conservative caucus to sit in the Senate as an independent on February 3, 2004. Spivak holds liberal views on most social issues. She allowed her name to be used on a full-page pro-choice advertisement that ran in the ''Winnipeg Free Press'' on October 11, 1989. In 2006, she supported Elizabeth May in her successful campaign to win the leadership of the Green Party of Canada.Susan DelacourtMay wins vote to lead Greens ''Toro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lori Spivak
The Honourable Lori T. Spivak, a puisne Judge of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench for Manitoba, was appointed a Judge of Appeal of the Court of Appeal for Manitoba. She replaces Justice H.C. Beard (Winnipeg), who elected to become a supernumerary judge effective January 1, 2019. She was previously a judge of the Manitoba Court of King's Bench, appointed on May 20, 2005. Life Spivak received a Bachelor of Arts in 1978 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1981, both from the University of Manitoba. She was admitted to the Manitoba Bar in 1982. She was appointed to the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench (General Division) in May 2005. Spivak practised with the law firm of Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson in Winnipeg. She practised in the areas of civil litigation, professional regulation and discipline, and administrative law (as a labour arbitrator and human rights adjudicator). Spivak served as President of the Law Society of Manitoba and President of the Federation of Law Societies of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
