Internet entrepreneur and computer scientist Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin was born on August 21,1973,i n Moscow, Russia. The son of a Soviet mathematician economist,Brin and his family emigrated to the United States to escape Jewish persecution in 1979.After receiving his degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park,Brin entered Standford University,where he met Larry Page.Both students were completing doctorates in computer science