User:Yurakm

Yuriy Koblents-Mishke, or simply Yura.

I was born and grew up in Leningrad, Russia, then moved to Moscow and lived there for many years. Since 1996 I live in Connecticut.

I am a financial and scientific programmer, current in C++, C, and Python. Previously I coded in Perl, Matlab, Fortran, Pascal, Basic, PL/1, Cobol, Algol 60, and several assembly languages.

My first education is in Mathematics. I was lucky to study at the Leningrad University, where I specialized in differential geometry and topology and differential operators on manifolds. After graduating I studied game theory. I do not work as a professional mathematician since 1977, but I developed numerical methods and discrete algorithms when it was needed, or sometimes just for fun.

My second education is in Economics with a specialization in mathematical methods. I worked for years as a mathematician, as a programmer, and as an economist at the Central Economic Mathematical Institute (CEMI) of Russian Academy of Sciences, first in Leningrad and later in Moscow. My experience in economics mostly concerns modeling of consumption (a subject of my dissertation), technological change/diffusion of innovations, and transient processes.