Random Quote: Lebesgue’s first papers angered classical mathematicians. The very title of one of them, “On unruled developable surfaces,” seemed to them as outlandish as, say, “On gaseous ice” to a physicist or “On fishlike elephants” to a biologist. – N. Ya. Vilenkin, “In Search of Infinity”
John Stachurski
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 am 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, Guinness, rum and shiso-flavored shochu (tantakatan)
Favorite films
- Apocalypse Now
- Pulp Fiction
- Aliens
Favorite TV shows
- It’s still “The Wire”, even after all these years.
Greatest songs of all time
- “Something to Say” by the Mud Suns
- “Phototropic” by Kyuss
- “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
- “Woman driving, man sleeping” by Eels
- “Love Spreads” by the Stone Roses
- “One bourbon, one scotch and One beer” by George Thorogood / John Lee Hooker