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Science of Better: Crunching the Numbers
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Friday, August 19, 2010

Scott Patterson
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The Quants
Scott Patterson, Former Wall Street Journal reporter

Turbulence on Wall Street Financial engineering came under a microscope in August 2007, when so-called "quant funds" suffered hundreds of millions of dollars of losses. A year later, when economic turmoil broadly hit finance and banking, mathematical modeling came again under scrutiny. Former Wall Street Journal reporter Scott Patterson examines the wins and losses in his new book "The Quants."

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