Goldfarb
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Goldfarb is German for golden color and is the surname of:
- Alex Goldfarb (Israeli politician), a former Israeli politician
- Alexander Goldfarb (microbiologist)Alexander Goldfarb (microbiologist)Alexander Davidovich Goldfarb is a Russian-American microbiologist, activist, and author. He emigrated from the USSR in 1975 and lived in Israel and Germany before settling permanently in New York in 1982. Goldfarb is a naturalized American citizen...
, a microbiologist, activist and author - Alexander Goldfarb is also one of the aliases used by NKVD agent J. PetersJ. PetersJ. Peters was the most commonly known pseudonym of a man who last went by the name "Alexander Stevens" in 1949. Peters was an ethnic Jewish journalist and political activist who was a leading figure of the Hungarian language section of the Communist Party USA in the 1920s and 1930s...
- Alvin GoldfarbAlvin GoldfarbAlvin "Al" Goldfarb was the tenth president of Western Illinois University. Prior to his current position from 1977 to 2002 he was on the faculty of the department of theatre at Illinois State University in Normal, where he was also chairman of the theatre department, dean of fine arts from 1988...
, president of Western Illinois University - Charles GoldfarbCharles GoldfarbCharles F. Goldfarb is known as the father of SGML and is a co-inventor of the concept of markup languages. In 1969 Charles Goldfarb, leading a small team at IBM, developed the first markup language, called Generalized Markup Language, or GML. In an , Dr...
, co-inventor of the Generalized Markup Language, a system for annotating text - Howard GoldfarbHoward GoldfarbHoward Goldfarb is a Canadian poker player, chiefly noted as the runner-up of the 1995 World Series of Poker .At the time he was a 33-year-old land developer and businessman from Toronto. He made his first foray into poker in 1993, when he joined some friends for a game in one of Toronto's private...
, a Canadian poker player - Lawrence (Larry) R. GoldfarbLawrence (Larry) R. GoldfarbLawrence R. Goldfarb is an American hedge fund manager and former CEO and founding partner of the LRG Capital Group.-Education:...
, CEO and founding partner of LRG Capital Group - Robert GoldfarbRobert GoldfarbRobert Goldfarb serves as President and CEO of Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb, the value investing firm founded in 1970 by William J. Ruane and Rick Cunniff. Goldfarb is a disciple of Warren Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Mr. Goldfarb's firm currently manages over $14 billion in assets. A...
, President and CEO of Ruane, Cunniff, and Goldfarb - Warren GoldfarbWarren GoldfarbWarren D. Goldfarb is a philosopher and mathematician with a specialization in logic, most noted for his work on the classical decision problem, and in particular his book on the subject, The decision problem: Solvable classes of quantificational formulas, with Burton Dreben. He received his Ph.D....
, a philosopher and mathematician with a specialization in logic
See also
- Ruane, Cunniff, and GoldfarbRuane, Cunniff, and GoldfarbRuane, Cunniff & Goldfarb based in New York City is the investment firm founded in 1969 by William J. Ruane and Richard T. Cunniff. The firm manages its trademark Sequoia Fund, which has one of the best long-term performance records on Wall Street. The firm manages over $14 billion in...
, an investment firm in the United States - Goldfarb, Levy, Eran, Meiri & Co.Goldfarb, Levy, Eran, Meiri & Co.Goldfarb, Levy, Eran, Meiri & Co. is the second-largest law firm in Israel. Its offices are in Tel Aviv. The firm is a result of a merger between the law firms of Goldfarb, Levy, Eran & Co. and Dankner-Lusky & Co. .-External links:* , Dun's 100- 2005* , BDI Code- 2006...
, the second largest law firm in Israel - Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno method, a.k.a. BFGS methodBFGS methodIn numerical optimization, the Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno method is a method for solving nonlinear optimization problems ....
, a method for solving nonlinear optimization problems