Oscar Seurat* is a Polish born, American mathematician and author (PhD from New York University and, effectively, Erdös No. 2) who worked for more than a decade at prominent Wall Street institutions like Goldman Sachs, Credit-Suisse Securities, and Royal Bank of Canada. The main focus of his work involved mathematical and software aspects of statistical arbitrage, program trading and securities lending. He has also worked at the New York Stock Exchange at their offices in Paris and New York on integration of certain high-frequency data management tools. Recently, Oscar taught undergraduate mathematics and computer science at Fordham University, Framingham State University and Northeastern University.

Always fascinated with bird’s eye views, and the instinctive fear high altitudes instill in us, he started his aviation adventure with the Accelerated Free Fall skydiving course in Perris, California, obtaining his A license in 2000, and performing the total of 61 jumps. In 2004, after a year and three months of committed work, he obtained a private pilot license at Teterboro, NJ, and has since logged 900 landings and close to 400 hours of flight time. This flight time does not include the very short flights he performed in college as a high jumper when he reached the personal best of 6 ft and 9.1 in (206cm).

The Blind Bidder's Eye, Oscar's second book, appeared in August 2015.  It is a  magical realism thriller involving a father and his teenage son whose lives spiral into chaos when the boy stumbles across a curious item belonging to an 18th century genius. The novel sends the reader on an exciting, bumpy path through the son’s humorous tribulations at his Manhattan high school, a singular Wall Street business of blind bidding, and the mind of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), a mathematician historically known to have lost an eye due to mental exertion. Click on the image for a preview. ♦