| Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation: A Story of Genius and Discovery Contributor(s): Szpiro, George G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465022480 ISBN-13: 9780465022489 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $36.63 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economic History - Science | History - Business & Economics | Investments & Securities - Options |
| Dewey: 332.645 |
| LCCN: 2011025031 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.5" W x 9.4" (1.20 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Options have been traded for hundreds of years, but investment decisions were based on gut feelings until the Nobel Prize -- winning discovery of the Black-Scholes options pricing model in 1973 ushered in the era of the quants. Wall Street would never be the same. 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. |
