Wasserstein is a surname and can refer to:
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Abraham Wasserstein (1921–1995), a German-born British and Israeli classicist
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Bernard Wasserstein
Bernard Wasserstein (born 22 January 1948 in London) is a British historian.
Early life
Bernard Wasserstein was born in London on 22 January 1948. Wasserstein's father, Abraham Wasserstein (1921–1995), born in Frankfurt, was Professor of Class ...
(b. 1948), a British historian
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Bruce Wasserstein
Bruce Jay Wasserstein (December 25, 1947 – October 14, 2009) was an American investment banker, businessman, and writer. He was a graduate of the McBurney School, University of Michigan, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School, and ...
(1947–2009), an American former investment banker and former CEO of
Lazard
Lazard Ltd (formerly known as Lazard Frères & Co.) is a financial advisory and asset management firm that engages in investment banking, asset management and other financial services, primarily with institutional clients. It is the world's la ...
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Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright. She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 ...
(1950–2006), an American playwright
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Leonid Nasonovich Vasershtein, a Russian-American mathematician
It is also used to name:
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Wasserstein metric
In mathematics, the Leonid Vaseršteĭn, Wasserstein distance or Leonid Kantorovich, Kantorovich–Gennadii Rubinstein, Rubinstein metric is a metric (mathematics), distance function defined between Probability distribution, probability distributi ...
, a mathematical distance measure
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Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, an investment bank, part of
Dresdner Bank
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Wasserstein Perella & Co., an investment bank built by Bruce Wasserstein and
Joseph R. Perella
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