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The physics of Wall Street: a brief history of predicting the unpredictable
After the economic meltdown of 2008, Warren Buffett famously warned, “beware of geeks bearing formulas.” But as James Weatherall demonstrates, not all geeks are created equal. While many of the mathematicians and software engineers on Wall Street failed when their abstractions turned ugly in practic...
Autor principal: | Weatherall, James Owen |
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Lenguaje: | eng |
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2013
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Acceso en línea: | http://cds.cern.ch/record/1507201 |
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