Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation
by George G. Szpiro
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages320 pages
ISBN
9780465022489
Published
2011
Description
Traces the centuries-long development of modern financial theory and the mathematical discoveries that eventually led to the Black-Scholes options pricing model. The book connects finance, economics, probability theory, ...Traces the centuries-long development of modern financial theory and the mathematical discoveries that eventually led to the Black-Scholes options pricing model. The book connects finance, economics, probability theory, and physics while exploring the contributions of mathematicians, scientists, economists, and traders whose ideas transformed Wall Street into a quantitative, model-driven financial system.
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