I am a life-long learner who enjoys instilling the same passion for knowledge in others. The most effective way to learn is by engaging in a mutual Socratic dialectical discussion where eternal truth is discovered through dialogue. It is imperative that both interlocutors achieve a complete understanding of the concept at hand before proceeding. I will provide appropriate books which emphasize first principles.
After my sophomore year in high school I took a Physics course at the U of...
I am a life-long learner who enjoys instilling the same passion for knowledge in others. The most effective way to learn is by engaging in a mutual Socratic dialectical discussion where eternal truth is discovered through dialogue. It is imperative that both interlocutors achieve a complete understanding of the concept at hand before proceeding. I will provide appropriate books which emphasize first principles.
After my sophomore year in high school I took a Physics course at the U of Iowa where I learned calculus, and was invited to start college that fall. I instead elected to return to school where I studied the Feynman Lectures and was named the outstanding science and math student. I studied Physics at MIT (SB) and Caltech (MS) and TAM at the U of Illinois (PhD). Afterwards, I worked at the trading firm that pioneered the quantitative approach to finance, where I developed an arbitrage-free model for the evolution of forward rates that became the market standard for valuing interest rate derivatives. Later, I drew an analogy between forward rates and future default probabilities to price credit derivatives. Most recently, I modeled a corporation as a cancellable earnings swaption, while restoring the original Modigliani-Miller Theorem. I use this model to provide firm's with quantitative answers to corporate finance questions. Along with my consulting, I am facilitating dialectical Socratic discussions. My teaching includes Caltech Physics Lab & Quantum Mechanics TA, Illinois Dynamics Lecture & Fluid Mechanics Lab and NYU Courant Derivative & Case Study Lectures. In addition, I am studying Great Books at the U of Chicago.
Ideal candidates are those who desire supplementary instruction, college-level enrichment and test preparation and anyone who wanted to study a particular field but, "Life got in the way." Sessions are offered in physics, chemistry, math and philosophy, incorporating the seminal works of Euclid, Newton, Dirac, Kant, Pauling and Feynman.
