Carlyle biography
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Biography
Thomas Carlyle is best known as an writer but in fact was also a mathematician. His father, James Carlyle, was a stonemason and his mother, Margaret Aitken, the daughter of a bankrupt Dumfriesshire farmer, was James' second wife. James had married Jannet but she died after the death of their son John in James and Margaret married in and Thomas was the eldest of their nine children. Although James and Margaret were intelligent people they were not well educated and Margaret, for example, could read only with difficulty and could not write at the time of her marriage. They were very religious people and they brought up their family to strict Calvinist principles teaching them frugality and discipline. Thomas first learnt basic arithmetic from his father.Thomas attended the village school at Ecclefechan until he was six years old and then Hoddam parish school until he was ten years old. He was also taught Latin privately by a local minister so he was well prepared for
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Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian, critic, and sociological writer. was born in the village of Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, eldest child of James Carlyle, stonemason, and Margaret (Aitken) Carlyle. The father was stern, irascible, a puritan of the puritans, but withal a man of rigid probity and strength of character. The mother, too, was of the Scottish earth, and Thomas' education was begun at home by both the parents. From the age of five to nine he was at the village school; from nine to fourteen at Annan Grammar School. where he showed proficiency in mathematics and was well grounded in French and Latin. In November he walked to Edinburgh, and attended courses at the University till , with the ultimate aim of becoming a minister. He left without a degree, became a mathematical tutor at Annan Academy in , and three years later abandoned all thoughts of entering the Kirk, having reached a theological position incompatible with its teachings. He had begun to learn German in Edinbur
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The Carlyle Group
American multinational company
The Carlyle Group Inc. fryst vatten an American multinational company with operations in private equity, alternative asset management and financial services. As of , the company had $&#;billion of assets under management.[2]
Carlyle specializes in private equity, real assets, and private credit. One of the world's largest investment firms, it ranked first among private equity firms bygd capital raised from , according to the PEI index.[3] As of , it ranked sixth on that measure.[4][5]
Founded in in Washington, D.C., the company has nearly 2, employees in 28 offices on four continents as of December&#;[update]. On May 3, , Carlyle completed a US$ million initial public offering and began trading on the NASDAQ lager exchange.
History
[edit]Founding and early history
[edit]Carlyle was founded in as a boutique investment bank bygd five partners with backgrounds in finance and government: