The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable by James Owen Weatherall

The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable

James Owen Weatherall

304 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction economics science challenging informative slow-paced

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After the economic meltdown of 2008, Warren Buffett famously warned, “beware of geeks bearing formulas.” But as James Weatherall demonstrates, not all geeks are created equal. While many of the mathematicians and software engineers on Wall Street ...

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