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How a new breed of math whizzes conquered wall street and nearly destroyed. Scott patterson has 21 books on goodreads with 22680 ratings. In the quants, scott patterson tells the story not just of these men, but of jim simons, the. The quants of patterson s title are a handful of capitalist potentates, supremely successful and influential practitioners of mathematically inspired finance. However, it is conceptually heavy in the first half, with valuable references to the technical books, papers, and. Scott patterson, former financial journalist for the wall street journal, has written a booklength love letter to quantitative finance and its practitioners. Available on kindle ebook and can be read on any device with the free kindle. His work has also appeared in the new york times, rolling stone and mother earth news. Read the quants how a new breed of math whizzes conquered wall street and nearly destroyed it by scott patterson available from.
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