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  • Pricing the Future

  • Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation
  • By: George Szpiro
  • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
  • Length: 10 hrs
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (19 ratings)

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By: George Szpiro
Narrated by: Brian Troxell
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Summary

Options have been traded for hundreds of years, but investment decisions were based on gut feelings until the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the Black-Scholes options pricing model in 1973 ushered in the era of the quants. Wall Street would never be the same.

In Pricing the Future, financial economist George G. Szpiro tells the fascinating stories of the pioneers of mathematical finance who conducted the search for the elusive options pricing formula. From the broker's assistant who published the first mathematical explanation of financial markets to Albert Einstein and other scientists who looked for a way to explain the movement of atoms and molecules, Pricing the Future retraces the historical and intellectual developments that ultimately led to the widespread use of mathematical models to drive investment strategies on Wall Street.
©2011 George G. Szpiro (P)2011 Audible, Inc.
Economic History History Mathematics Options Wall Street
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"One of the major intellectual achievements of the 20th century was the theory of option pricing. This is its story, and it’s absolutely fascinating." (Robert P. Inman, Richard K. Mellon Professor of Finance and Economics, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania)
"[A] fascinating historical account.... Those who think finance is a science will be surprised by the serendipitous events that delayed the discovery of the option-pricing formula by 73 years; those who think finance is an art will be shocked by the deep connections between option-pricing, physics, and probability theory." (Andrew Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance and Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Szpiro’s tale should fascinate readers who follow the markets." ( Booklist)

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Beste book I have "read" on futures & derivatives.

What did you like most about Pricing the Future?

This book tells the story of the stock market, derivatives trade and the calculus that made it possible in an interesting and entertaining way.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Pricing the Future?

The great and very understandeble explanation of brownian motion.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

it made me facinated with the math behind derivatives.

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