D. in appliedmathematics, the 50-year-old Berezovsky says he spent 25 years doing research on decision-making theory at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He has 12 honorary degrees, was awarded the CBE in 1982 and since 1979 has been at Cambridge University's Department of AppliedMathematics and Theoretical Physics, where he is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics -- a post once held by Isaac Newton.
The iconic Jaguar E-Type of 1963 was largely the result of a designer who appliedmathematics he'd learned while creating aerodynamic World War II fighter planes, which themselves came from many different sources.
Volozh co-founded several information technology companies prior to starting Yandex and he has a degree in appliedmathematics from the Gubkin Insitute of Oil and Gas.