Title: Fischer Black and the revolutionary idea of finance
First published: 2005
Description: Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance explores Fischer Black's intellectual journey from Harvard to the offices of ADL, from the University of Chicago to MIT, and then to Goldman Sachs. Years of research and interviews with Black's 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 man's 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.
Subjects: Finance, Mathematical models, Economists, Investments, Biography, History, Business, Nonfiction, Business enterprises, finance, Economists, biography, Finance, mathematical models, Finance, united states, Investments, mathematical models
Places: United States
People: Fischer Black (1938-)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: HG172.F565 M44 2005, HG172.B53 M44 2005