Posts Tagged ‘Physics’

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Eplison-Minus Semi-Moron test is based on the intelligence parameters developed by British writer Aldous Huxley in London during the 1930s.

“…Dr. Derman, who spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs and became managing director, was a forerunner of the many physicists and other scientists who have flooded Wall Street in recent years, moving from a world in which a discrepancy of a few percentage points in a measurement can mean a Nobel Prize or unending mockery to a world in which a few percent one way can land you in jail and a few percent the other way can win you your own private Caribbean island…”  Crux of the story?  There is no EeualsMCsquared in the financial markets (most certainly  forget about unified field theories). Read the full story here.

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Looking for the science of Wall Street? Here’s a book I’m reading: A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market (and keep in mind the key word in the title: Plays ).