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and building children’s self-confidence through their success
in math. He overcame his own “massive math anxiety” before
earning a PhD in mathematics at the University of Toronto.
He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fields Fellow.
Moshe A. Milevsky is Finance Professor at the Schulich
School of Business, York University, and a faculty member
in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He is the
founder of the Individual Finance and Insurance Decisions
Centre (IFID), whose home was at the Fields Institute for
two decades. His current research interests are in financial
history and the evolution of retirement insurance and annuity
products over the centuries.
Eric Muller is Professor Emeritus at Brock University
and a Fields F