The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street By Justin Fox 2009 400 pages A history of the Rational Market hypothesis. Chronicles the first rigorous use of mathematics and game theory to study economic behavior, the people who did it and its effects on financial markets. Documents […]
The Last Man Who Knew Everything By Andrew Robinson 2006 304 pages The biography of British polymath Thomas Young. Various scientific achievements at the turn of the 19th century. Wave theory of light, significant contributions to the decipherment of the Rosetta Stone. Contributor to Encyclopedia Britannica. Lectures to the Royal Institute published in Lectures on […]