Random Quote: Ordinarily, people are anxious to test their theories in practice, to learn from experience, but those who wield power are so anxious to establish the myth of their own infallibility that they turn their backs on the truth as squarely as they can. Politics means nothing to me. I don’t like people who are indifferent to the truth. – Boris Pasternak
John Stachurski
Born to Fish, Forced to Work
A brief self-introduction: I like mathematics and programming, which is good because they occupy most of my waking hours, along with some of my dreams. Currently I’m based at Australian National University, working on optimization and equilibrium problems in economics and finance.
In 2016, Tom Sargent and I founded QuantEcon, a US-based nonprofit organization that supports open source software for computational modeling in economics and related fields.
I have a book buying habit, especially when it comes to maths books. In my spare time I enjoy table tennis, sailing, fishing, skating, cooking, badminton, riding around on my F800R, listening to music, hanging out with my family and drinking beer with my no good friends. Like my Dad, I am interested in world history and anything to do with the ocean. Like my Mum, I love hiking, rivers and mountains.
Contact
Favorite maths books
- See this page
More favorite books
- My war gone by, I miss it so; Anthony Loyd
- The village; Bing West
- Dr. Zhivago; Boris Pasternak
- Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world; Haruki Murakami
- The red badge of courage; Stephen Crane
- Goodbye to all that; Robert Graves
- Street without joy; Bernard Fall
- A rumor of war; Philip Caputo
- Fear and loathing in Las Vegas; Hunter S. Thompson
- Critical care; Richard Dooling
- White man’s grave; Richard Dooling
- A bright and shining lie; Neil Sheehan
- Shah of Shahs; Ryszard Kapuscinski
- City of Thieves; David Bienoff
- We were soldiers once, and young; Hal Moore and James Galloway
Favorite drinks
- Beer, rum and shiso-flavored shochu (tantakatan)
Favorite films
- Apocalypse Now
- Pulp Fiction
- Aliens
Best TV shows
- The Wire. Next question.
Greatest songs of all time
- “The Regulator” by Clutch
- “Gullah” by Clutch
- “Call me star” by All Them Witches
- “Hard time killing floor blues” by Skip James
- “Modern times” by The Black Keys
- “Bright lights” by Gary Clark Jr.
- “Wish you were here” by Pink Floyd
- “Jail break” by AC-DC
- “Fire coming out of the monkey’s head” by Gorillaz
- “Bus stop boxer” by Eels
- “Black heart” by Calexico
- “Woman driving, man sleeping” by Eels
- “Something to Say” by the Mud Suns
- “Love Spreads” by the Stone Roses
- “One bourbon, one scotch and One beer” by George Thorogood / John Lee Hooker