The Physics of Finance: Predicting the Unpredictable: How Science Has Taken Over Wall Street

James Owen Weatherall

ISBN 10: 1780720874 / ISBN 13: 9781780720876

Published by Short Books, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Physics of Finance: Predicting the Unpredictable: How Science Has Taken Over Wall Street
• Publisher: Short Books
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780720874
• ISBN 13: 9781780720876
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A young scholar tells the story of the physicists and mathematicians who created the models that have become the basis of modern finance and argues that these models are the solution to—not the source of—our current economic woes.

About the Author

James Owen Weatherall is a physicist, philosopher, and mathematician. He holds graduate degrees from Harvard, the Stevens Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Irvine, where he is presently an assistant professor of logic and philosophy of science. He has written for Slate and Scientific American.