It's all in Scott Patterson's Quants. m.a.
----- Original Message ----- From: Brent Meeker To: Atoms and the Void ; EveryThing ; Rob Shostak Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 3:22 PM Subject: Fwd: unexpected application of logic I asked a mathematician friend, Ed Clark, about this. And he asked a logician colleague. Here's the reply. :-) Brent -------- Original Message -------- On 6/2/2010 1:24 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: > http://christianmarks.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/mathematical-logic-finds-unexpected-application-on-wall-street/ > I forwarded this to my logician colleagues and asked if they thought it was serious. One replied: On 6/2/2010 2:35 PM, Gregory McColm wrote: > Wall Street has made a fetish of mathematics since it was founded. So of > course, logicians are ideally situated to gull investors out of their money. > After all, with all of those statisticians and stochastic process people > getting rich from the gullibility of bankers, why shouldn't logicians get > the same opportunity to make a dishonest buck? Why should the differential > equations and astrology people get all the business? > So of course it's serious. The fact that it took so long is testimony > to the other worldliness and integrity of the logicians. But now we're going > to be raking in the dough. > Meanwhile, Edwin, if you want a really nice nest egg, you really should > find some place with lots of people with more money than brains (Boca Raton > fits that bill), and tell them about dominating sets, independence, and > packing. You could make a mint... > > Gregory McColm > Extreme Middle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
