Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro was a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician. During a career that spanned 60 years he made major contributions to applied science as well as pure mathematics. In his last forty years his research focused on pure mathematics; in particular, analytic number theory, group representations and algebraic geometry. His main contribution and impact was in the area of automorphic forms and L-functions.
Shapiro, and its variations such as Shapira, Schapiro, Schapira, Sapir, Sapira, Spira, Spiro, Sapiro, Szapiro/Szpiro in Polish and Chapiro in French, is a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
Schapiro is a surname, and may refer to:
Axelrod or Akselrod is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Harkavy is a Jewish surname. Variants in Russian language include Garkavy/Garkavyi, ru:Гарькавый) and Gorkavy. The Dictionary of American Family Names suggests that the surname is derived from the Belarusian word 'harkavyj' for a person who pronounces uvular R instead of voiced alveolar trill R In fact a derogatory epithet for a Jew is "гаркавы", or "burry". Another meaning of the Belarusian word "гаркавы" is "slightly bitter".
Shapira is a surname, and may refer to:
Abramowicz, Abramovich, Abramowitz, and Abramovitz are variant spellings of a name meaning "son of Abraham" among Slavic language speaking peoples; it is a common surname among Ashkenazi Jews, for whom it is commonly Hebraized to Ben-Avraham (בן-אברהם) upon immigration to Israel.
Schaap is a Dutch metonymic surname meaning "sheep". Notable people with the surname include:
Schapira is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Spiro is a given name among Greek-speaking populations, Albanians, and the Christians of Lebanon. It also is a surname with a variety of origins.
Shapero is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Schaper is a German and Dutch surname. Notable people with it include:
Sapira, Şapira and Šapira are variants of the Jewish Ashkenazi surname Shapiro.
Spira is a surname with a variety of origins. In Germany, the surname Spira originated as a corruption of Speyer, the name of a town in the Rhineland.
Leiba is a given name and a surname of Jewish origin, a variant of Leib. Notable people with the surname include:
Schaps is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Altschuler, Altshuler, Altschuller, Altshuller, Altschueler, Altshueler, or Alschuler is a Jewish surname of Ashkenazi origin. It is derived from the Altschul, Old Synagogue in Prague.
Szpiro is a Polish Jewish surname, a variant of Shapiro. Notable people with this surname include:
Szapiro is a Polish Jewish surname, a variant of Shapiro. Notable people with this surname include:
Volodarsky ; transliteration variants: Volodarski, Wolodarsky, Wolodarski) is a Russian-language toponymic surname. It may be a Jewish surname derived from the place name Volodarka, or the Russian-language variant of the name a Polish place named Włodarka since the times when Poland was part of the Russian Empire. Accordingly, the corresponding Polish-language surname is Włodarski.
This page is based on this
Wikipedia article Text is available under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
