Ernesto Mordecki

Ernesto Mordecki
Born Ernesto Mordecki Pupko
6 October 1962
Montevideo, Uruguay
Nationality Uruguayan
Occupation mathematician, professor
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Ernesto Mordecki

Ernesto Mordecki Pupko (born 6 October 1962) is a Uruguayan mathematician and professor.

Biography

Mordecki is a professor at the Centro de Matemática of the University of the Republic, Uruguay. His research interests include optimal stopping of stochastic processes and applications to finance, and received his Ph.D in statistics of stochastic processes in 1994 from the Steklov Mathematical Institute, under the supervision of Albert Shiryaev.[1] During 20002001 he was director of the Centro de Matemática (Mathematics Center), Science Faculty, Montevideo. Professor Mordecki has authored more than 30 articles on his research interests.[2]

Trivia

Mordecki has Erdős number 3, through the chain Paul Erdős - Pal Révész - Mario Wschebor - Ernesto Mordecki, and also through Ernesto Mordecki - Paavo Salminen - Endre Csáki - Paul Erdős.

References

  1. Ernesto Mordecki at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. http://www.cmat.edu.uy/~mordecki/articles/

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