Physicists on Wall Street and Other Essays on Science and Society

by Jeremy Bernstein

Book Overview

Economists.- Options.- Black-Scholes.- The Rise and Fall of the Quants.- Scientists.- Heisenberg in Poland.- The Orion.- Tales from South Africa.- A Nuclear Supermarket.- Ottavio Baldi: The Life and Times of Sir Henry Wotton.- Linguists.- The Spencers of Althorp and Sir William Jones: A Love Story.- All That Glitters.- In a Word, "Lions".- Fiction and Stranger than Fiction.- The Pianist, Fiction and Non-fiction.- Rocket Science.- The Science of Michel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441926240
• ISBN13: 9781441926241
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"