Pricing the Future : Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-...
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Pricing the Future : Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation: A Story of Genius and Discovery, Hardcover by Szpiro, George G., ISBN 0465022480, ISBN-13 9780465022489, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Mathematician-turned-journalist Szpiro narrates the intellectual history behind the options pricing formula found by economists Fischer Black, Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton in 1973. Describing developments from the middle of the 17th century onwards, his narrative discusses mathematical efforts to understand the value of options, while emphasizing the role of specific personalities such as Robert Brown, Albert Einstein, MIT mathematician Norbert Wiener, Russian theorist of probability Andrey Kolmogorov, and Japanese mathematician Kiyoshi Ito. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Year: 2011
- ISBN: 9780465022489
- Condition: Fine
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