Edgar van Tuyll
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Edgar van Tuyll is the chief quantitative strategist of Pictet & Cie
Pictet & Cie
-Pictet & Cie, Private Bankers, Geneva, Switzerland:Founded in 1805 in Geneva, Pictet & Cie is today one of Switzerland's largest private banks, and one of the premier independent asset management specialists in Europe...

. He has been extensively quoted by the media for his prediction of the 2000 Dot-com bubble
Dot-com bubble
The dot-com bubble was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2000 during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from growth in the more...

 crash and of the bull market beginning in March 2003. He is among the minority of strategists expecting a US recession
Recession
In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction, a general slowdown in economic activity. During recessions, many macroeconomic indicators vary in a similar way...

 in 2007-2008.
His website Links to unsolved problems, prizes and research is top ranked by Google for list of unsolved problems in mathematics and physics.
He is the author of several entries in the "CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics", Chapman & Hall, 2002.
He is the grandson of Antti Johannes Rantamaa
Antti Johannes Rantamaa
Antti Johannes Rantamaa was a Finnish member of the Finnish Parliament, figure of the Winter War, author and one of the heads of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland....

.

Sources

  • FT: http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=000327000437

  • Business Week: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_17/b3780102.htm

  • Le Monde: http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/acheter.cgi?offre=ARCHIVES&type_item=ART_ARCH_30J&objet_id=70723

  • CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Chapman & Hall, 2002: http://www.amazon.com/CRC-Concise-Encyclopedia-Mathematics-Second/dp/1584883472

  • Moduli space: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ModuliSpace.html
  • Nonparametric estimation: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NonparametricEstimation.html
  • Twistor: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Twistor.html
  • Twistor correspondence: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TwistorCorrespondence.html
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