About me
I graduated from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology (MIPT) with Master’s degree in physics in 1996. While in MIPT, I was specializing in theoretical physics in Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. I received my Ph.D. in physics from Stony Brook University in 2001, specializing in quantum field theory. I am currently a Managing Director with a financial firm in New York, working on some analytically-intensive classes of financial instruments.
As many other people who come from the same educational system do, I believe in the need to teach kids to derive things rather than to memorize them, to teach to understand where the rules come from rather than to teach them to apply rules blindly. And, of course, I believe that solving problems is the main part in learning any analytical subject – and that it is absolutely imperative that students try to work on problems themselves, on problems that are easy, not that easy and just hard, at home and in the class.
