He tells the story of how physicists first moved to finance, bringing science to bear on some of the thorniest problems in economics, from. His list features familiar names such as irish author tana french whose latest novel the trespasser was a sensation this year. Many had phds in finance, with graduate training in stateoftheart academic theories never before a prerequisite for work on the street. Others were outsiders, with backgrounds in fields like mathematics or physics. Physics is the wrong model for financial markets and economics. A brief history of predicting the unpredictable paperback february 4, 2014. While many of the mathematicians and software engineers on wall street failed when. These funds were run by traders, called quants, who represented a new kind of wall street elite. In the physics of wall street, the physicist james weatherall answers both of these questions.
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