Matheus is a professor of Financial Mathematics at McMaster University, Canada, and the former Deputy Director of the Fields Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Toronto. He is the author of numerous published peerreviewed articles on topics including optimal investment, banking networks, and financial fragility, as well as a textbook on numerical methods. Matheus has taught courses on asset price bubbles at the Institute Henri Poincaré (Paris), the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (Rio de Janeiro), the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University of Oxford, and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Matheus sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Banking and Finance, the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, and the Journal of Dynamics and Games. He was an elected member of the Council of the Bachelier Finance Society, the international professional association for financial mathematics. In June 2017 he was appointed a Fields Institute Fellow.
Matheus lives in Hamilton, Ontario.
A cross-field punt
03/07/2020
A novelist and a mathematician have combined forces to produce a fictional account of the Lehman Brothers’ crash that injects life into soulless corners of financial teaching reading lists. Review