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Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation: A Story of Genius and Discovery
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- George G Szpiro
- Basic Books
- Hardcover
- 9780465022489
- 9.4 X 6.5 X 1.4 inches
- 1.2 pounds
- Business & Economics > Economic History
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
In Pricing the Future, financial economist George G. Szpiro tells the fascinating stories of the pioneers of mathematical finance who conducted the search for the elusive options pricing formula. From the broker's assistant who published the first mathematical explanation of financial markets to Albert Einstein and other scientists who looked for a way to explain the movement of atoms and molecules, Pricing the Future retraces the historical and intellectual developments that ultimately led to the widespread use of mathematical models to drive investment strategies on Wall Street.
Author Bio
George G Szpiro was born in Vienna, Austria, grew up in Switzerland, and live & work in New York City, Jerusalem, Israel and Villeneuve, Switzerland.
George G. Szpiro is an award-winning author and journalist. A longtime correspondent for the Swiss daily?Neue Zürcher Zeitung, his many books include?Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present?(2010) and?Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation?(2011).
Books
Kepler’s Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve one of the Oldest Math Problems of the World; John Wiley, 2003.
The Secret Life of Numbers: 50 Easy Pieces on How Mathematicians Work and Think; Joseph Henry Press (The National Academy of Sciences), 2006.
Poincaré’s Conjecture: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles; Dutton, 2007.
A Mathematical Medley: Fifty easy Pieces on Mathematics; The American Mathematical Association (AMA), 2010
Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present; Princeton University Press, 2010.
Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation; Basic Books 2011
Education
- 1968 - 1972 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, MSc mathematics
- 1973 - 1975 Stanford University, MBA
- 1975 - 1984 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, Ph.D. mathematical economics
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