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Edith Hirsch Luchins (21 December 1921 in Brzeziny, Poland – 18 November 2002 in Suffern, New York) was a Polish-American mathematician. Her work focused on applying mathematical principles to problems in the philosophy of science and psychology, most notably in the field of Gestalt psychology . [1]
Desi Arnaz. Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III (March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986), known as Desi Arnaz, was a Cuban-American actor, musician, producer, and bandleader. [ 1] He played Ricky Ricardo on the American television sitcom I Love Lucy, in which he co-starred with his wife Lucille Ball. [ 1] Arnaz and Ball are credited as the ...
Edith Jarislowsky Hirsch (2 November 1899 – 7 January 2003) was a commodities economist who worked as a consultant with her husband, Julius Hirsch, and published several papers after his death. She also taught at the New School for Social Research. Biography. Edith Hirsch was born in Berlin, Germany to Adolph and Flora Jarislowsky.
Clement Lang Hirsch (April 26, 1914 – March 15, 2000) was an American businessman and a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner who co-founded Oak Tree Racing Association. Born in St. Louis, Missouri to a very successful family of retail merchants, Clement Hirsch moved to California as a young man.
In the 1970s he and his wife Edith Hirsch published a series of transcripts and reports on Wertheimer's advanced seminars and workshops. He researched the role of a mental set (Einstellung effect) in the use of the various water jar refill problems. The goal was to learn to what extent the successful use of a problem solving strategy has a ...
Hirsch is best known for his 1987 book Cultural Literacy, which was a national best-seller and a catalyst for the standards movement in American education. [2] Cultural Literacy included a list of approximately 5,000 "names, phrases, dates, and concepts every American should know" in order to be "culturally literate."
David Luchins. David Luchins (born 1946) is a professor at Touro College and chair of its political science department. He is a national vice-president of the Orthodox Union and a national officer of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA). Luchins is a "much-lauded longtime Orthodox Jewish activist" [ 1] who is active in Jewish communal ...
1930-1933 Hertz was a professor of world economy and sociology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in Halle an der Saale ( Saxony-Anhalt ). After the takeover by the Nazis, he was dismissed from service (1 May 1933) and fled to Vienna, where he lived until 1938 as a private scholar. He was attacked by the Nazi regime as a "Jew, Freemason and ...