A year ago, it was hardly unthinkable that a math wizard like David X. Li might someday earn a Nobel Prize. After all, financial economists—even Wall Street quants—have received the Nobel in economics ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 2000, while working at JPMorgan Chase, Li published a paper in The Journal of ...
MacKenzie is a very smart sociologist, who understands quants and copula functions much more deeply than I ever did. (And, like most journalists, I forgot nearly all of what I ever knew about them ...
QUANT models and their architects are so misunderstood, often by people working in finance. It pains me, though I am biased. I spent the better part of a decade devoted to studying elegant (and ...