As far as I know, I have no Erdös number,
but my Sigmund Freud number is 4:
(Sigmund > Eitingon > Gumpel > Schossberger > George)
About Me
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.) Upon completion my Ph.D. I taught finance and decision sciences at the Wharton School (U of Penn), 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! After the founding of the weekly “NZZ am Sonntag” in 2002 I wrote a monthly column on mathematics for seven years. (More about the NZZ here.)
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I usually did my writings on science and mathematics during the night, after the newspaper deadline. This gave me respite whenever the situation in the Middle East became too frustrating.
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In 2012, I was re-assigned to New York City, to cover the West and East Coast. I retired in 2015 but continue to write freelance for the NZZ.
Most of my time is spent, however, working on BECAUSE IT'S THE LAW!
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