MA in mathematics and physics, Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology.
MBA Stanford University. Ph.D.
in finance and mathematical economics, Hebrew University
of Jerusalem.
After finishing
business school, I worked
as a management consultant for McKinsey & Co. for a while,
but soon found
out that business life was not for me. (I did enjoy flying around
Europe, though.) After completing my Ph.D. I taught finance and decision
sciences at the Wharton School, the Hebrew University and the University
of Zurich until I realized
that the ivory towers were
not for me either. During my time in academia I wrote about 30 research
papers for professional journals.
In 1987 I started writing for the “Neue Zürcher
Zeitung.” I soon realized that this was
the kind of work that I liked most!
Since the founding of the
weekly “NZZ am Sonntag”
in March 2002 I have also been writing a monthly column
on mathematics.
I usually
do my writings on science and mathematics during the
night, after the newspaper deadline. This gives me
respite whenever the situation in the Middle East become
too frustrating.
„Kepler‘s conjecture“ was my first book
project. While I was working on the last chapters, in
September 2001, one of my closest friends was killed by
an Islamic Jihad suicide bomber, when he stepped off a
train in Nahariya, in northern Israel. His
name was Yigal Goldstein.
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