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Financial weaponry

21 Jun 2012

Pricing the Future: Physics, Finance and the 300-Year Journey to the Black–Scholes Equation
George Szpiro
2012 Basic Books £18.99/$28.00hb 320pp

First approximation
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Steve Hsu is a theoretical physicist at the University of Oregon, US, a founder of two Silicon Valley software start-ups and author of the blog Information Processing
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