Wasserstein is a surname and can refer to:
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Abraham Wasserstein
Abraham "Addi" Wasserstein (; 5 October 1921 – 20 July 1995) was a German-born British and Israeli classicist, a professor of classics at the University of Leicester in the UK and then at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Early life
Wasserstei ...
(1921–1995), a German-born British and Israeli classicist
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Bernard Wasserstein
Bernard Wasserstein (born 22 January 1948) is a British and American historian. He taught at universities in the United States and the United Kingdom from 1976-2014. Now retired, he is an emeritus professor of the University of Chicago.
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(born 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 prominent in the mergers and acquisitions industry, credited with working on 1,000 transactions with a total value ...
(1947–2009), an American former investment banker and former CEO of
Lazard
Lazard Inc. (formerly known as Lazard Ltd and 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 i ...
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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
Leonid Nisonovich Vaserstein () is a Russian- American mathematician, currently Professor of Mathematics at Penn State University. His research is focused on algebra and dynamical systems. He is well known for providing a simple proof of the Qui ...
, a Russian-American mathematician
It is also used to name:
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Wasserstein metric
In mathematics, the Wasserstein distance or Kantorovich– Rubinstein metric is a distance function defined between probability distributions on a given metric space M. It is named after Leonid Vaseršteĭn.
Intuitively, if each distribution ...
, a mathematical distance measure
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Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
SG Kleinwort Hambros is a private bank owned by Société Générale that offers financial services from offices throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Gibraltar.
History
In June 2016, Société Générale acquired Kleinwort Benson ...
, an investment bank, part of
Dresdner Bank
Dresdner Bank AG () was a German bank, founded in 1872 in Dresden, then headquartered in Berlin from 1884 to 1945 and in Frankfurt from 1963 onwards after a postwar hiatus. Long Germany's second-largest bank behind Deutsche Bank, it was eventually ...
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Wasserstein Perella & Co., an investment bank built by Bruce Wasserstein and
Joseph R. Perella
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