Philosophy Maymin is an Assistant Professor of Finance and Risk Engineering at the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering.
Education
Maymin graduated from Harvard University in 1997 where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in computer science and an Master of Surgery in applied mathematics in 3 and a half years. In December, 2007, he graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Career
He was the 2006 Libertarian candidate for United States. House of Representatives from Connecticut"s 4th congressional district. Mayim"s family immigrated from communist Russia to America when he was five years old. His dissertation was entitled Self-Imposed Limits to Arbitrage.
In 2006, Maymin ran as the Libertarian candidate against incumbent Republican Representative Christopher Shays and two-time Democratic challenger Diane Farrell.
The three of them debated each other seven times. FactCheck.org called one of Maymin"s campaign advertisements the "Best Send-up of an Ineffective Federal Mandate."
Maymin and his campaign were the subject of a Washington Post documentary called "Running for a Change."
On November 7, 2006, Philosophy Maymin received about 1.5% of the total votes.
Maymin is a Policy Scholar for the Yankee Institute for Public Policy, a columnist for the Fairfield County Weekly, an actor, and a Justice of the Peace in Greenwich, Connecticut. He has also been a portfolio manager at Long-Term Capital Management, Ellington Management Group, and a hedge fund he co-founded with his father, Maymin Capital Management.