George Szpiro: 3 books
Numbers Rule
The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Since the very birth of democracy in ancient Greece, the simple act of voting has given rise to mathematical paradoxes that have puzzled some of the greatest philosophers, statesmen, and mathematicians. Numbers Rule traces the epic quest by these thinkers to create a more perfect democracy and adapt...
Poincare's Prize
The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
The amazing story of one of the greatest math problems of all time and the reclusive genius who solved it
In the tradition of Fermat’s Enigma and Prime Obsession, George Szpiro brings to life the giants of mathematics who struggled to prove a theorem for a century and the mysterious man...
Pricing the Future
Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Options have been traded for hundreds of years, but investment decisions were based on gut feelings until the Nobel Prizewinning discovery of the Black-Scholes options pricing model in 1973 ushered in the era of the quants.” Wall Street would never be the same.
In Pricing the Future,...