Claiming that the Black-Scholes equation had anything to do with the Credit Crisis of 2007-2009 is a bit like claiming Daimler-Maybach were ...
Thursday, February 9, 2012
financial maths in the news
history of financial engineering
philosophy of financial mathematics
The intellectual void at the heart of the Occupy movement
The Bayesian algorithm at Amazon recommended David Graeber’s book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years with the product description Economic...
Why don't more mathematicians see the potential of economics
The question is, how did economics change its attitude to mathematics in the forty years between Håvelmo’s The Probability Approach in Econ...
Why don't more economists see the potential of mathematics
A research student, working in econometrics has e-mailed me with the comment I am a little confused why many economists do no...
Thursday, December 22, 2011
financial maths in the news
philosophy of financial mathematics
science policy
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and why we can't solve the Euro crisis
I, like a lot of technically minded-people it seems, like a good crime thriller. Having spent a year mesmerised by Sara Lund's sweaters...
... but what about the South Sea Bubble...
David K Waltz has made a comment on my last post, I realised my response was going to be a bit longer than a "comment". David ra...
Does finance need a scientific revolution or science need a revolution inspired by finance
Nature , the British version of Science , rarely makes forays into exploring issues in finance. They invited me to talk at a meeting i...
De Coding Da Vinci
It is well known that Leonardo Da Vinci became interested in the "golden ratio" or "divine proportion". It is somewhat ...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
St Thomas Aquinas comes to the defence of the vampire squid?
On April 16 2010, the SEC filed fraud charges against Goldman Sachs, the “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanit...
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