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The Physics Of Wall Street: A Brief History Of Predicting The Unpredictable (2013)

by James Owen Weatherall(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0547317271 (ISBN13: 9780547317274)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: Definitely for the Maths or Physics geek but not too intimidating. A fascinating insight into the world of the Financial Markets from the mathematical/physics point of view and into some of the highly interesting breakthroughs in forecasting. Entertainingly written and will give you a background into some of the "finance-speak" that you see and hear in the financial media. Full disclosure! - I AM a maths/physics geek and I worked for many years in the computer side of the financial industry.
review 2: I very much enjoyed this one. You don't have to be a physicist to catch all the author wants us to understand. He does a very good job of popularizing the science involved. There is more story-telling and history than science anyway, and that makes it quite ent... moreertaining. I particularly loved all the examples of borrowing between different disciplines like beating odds at gambling to predicting stress fractures in Kevlar to earthquakes to wall street and beyond. Quite fascinating and surprisingly took away the "ick" factor that I had previously associated with Wall Street quants. less

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