The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable

by James Owen Weatherall

Book Overview

"Weatherall probes an epochal shift in financial strategizing with lucidity, explaining how it occurred and what it means for modern finance."--Peter Galison, author of Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps

After the economic meltdown of 2008, many pundits placed the blame on "complex financial instruments" and the physicists and mathematicians who dreamed them up. But how is it that physicists came to drive Wall Street? And were their ideas really...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544112431
• ISBN13: 9780544112438
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Harper Business
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 8.0"