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The Quants, (Paperback)
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The Quants, (Paperback)
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from ubaidd
The one consistently recurring theme in The Quants is gambling. Ed Thorp, who according to Scott Patterson is the godfather of a quantitative based approach to investing is alos the author of the Blackjack card counting classic, Beat the Dealer and the subsequent primer on a quantitative approach...
from rivkat
A lot of profiles of various math types who thought that they could profit by detecting inefficiencies in the market and arbitraging them, and for a while largely did, but also were essential in generating the skewed risk-taking that brought the whole thing down. While the personal stories are in...
from richjj
Seemed very well researched and thorough. These were the major players who took the sophisticated world of financial trading and made it vastly more complicated. Products under trade and market models required teams of PhD's in math, physics, engineering, etc. After years of success they eventual...
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