Product Description: Now in paperback, “a compelling, accessible, and provocative piece of work that forces us to question many of our assumptions” (Gillian Tett, author of Fool’s Gold).Quants, physicists working on Wall Street as quantitative analysts, have been widely blamed for triggering financial crises with their complex mathematical models...read more

The author, a professor of financial engineering, traces his career from academia to Wall Street and back again, all the while adapting scientific and mathematical theory to the financial markets.