Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance explores Fischer Blacks intellectual journey from Harvard to the offices of ADL, from the University ofChicago to MIT, and then to Goldman Sachs. Years of research and interviews with Blacks business and academic associates, as well as family and friends, are distilled into a scholarly yet personal story of the formation and development of the extraordinary mind and unique character of this unassuming renegade.This poignant book tells the story of one mans intellectual adventure at the very center of modern finance. It is a story about the birth of quantitative finance and financial engineering. It is also the story about the continuing human quest to defeat the 'dark forces of time and ignorance,' as John Maynard Keynes famously put it.
- ISBN: 978-1-118-20356-9
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha Publicación: 04/01/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés