Quants: the maths geniuses who brought down wall street (Record no. 171094)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781847940599 |
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| Classification number | 332.64092273 PAT |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Patterson, Scott |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Quants: the maths geniuses who brought down wall street |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Random house |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2011 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 337 p. |
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| Unit of pricing | PND |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Quants - quantitative analysts - were the maths masterminds let loose on Wall Street in the belief that their brilliant, impregnable computer programs would always beat the market. But as the catastrophic events of 2007 and 2008 showed, their seemingly failproof methods were little more than ticking timebombs.<br/><br/>Inspired by the 'Godfather of Quants' - maths-professor-turned-gambler Ed Thorp, who began applying skills learned at the Vegas tables to the financial markets back in the 1950s - the quants achieved extraordinary success and massive wealth. This book charts their rise from obscurity to boom and then to bust, explaining why they were so confident - and how they got it so disastrously wrong. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Investments-Mathematical methods |
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| Not Missing | Not Damaged | Gandhi Smriti Library | Gandhi Smriti Library | 2020-02-08 | 1 | 332.64092273 PAT | 152672 | 2023-09-29 | 2022-09-29 | 2022-09-29 | 2020-02-08 | Books |