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The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street Paperback - 2000

by Thomas A. Bass

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Bass relates how two rumpled physicists set up computers in an adobe house in Santa Fe for a start-up company, and follows their journey into the centers of financial power where "the predictors" find investors and finally go live with real money.

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Excerpted in The New Yorker and hailed by the business press, The Predictors is destined to become a classic of its generation--an antic, subversive odyssey into a universe defined by the mystical convergence of physics and finance.

How could a couple of rumpled physicists in sandals and Eat-the-Rich T-shirts, piling computers into an adobe house in Santa Fe, hope to take on the masters of the universe from Morgan Stanley? Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard may never have read The Wall Street Journal, but they happen to be among the founders of the new sciences of chaos and complexity. Who better to try to find order in the apparently unreasoned chaos of the global financial markets? Thomas A. Bass takes us inside their start-up company, following it from its inception as a motley collection of longhaired Ph.D.s to its passage into the centers of financial power, where "the predictors" find investors and finally go live with real money. The Predictors is a dizzying, often hilarious tale of genius and greed.

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All hell has broken loose in the Chicago exchanges.

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  • Title The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street
  • Author Thomas A. Bass
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Holt Paperbacks, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2000-11-01
  • Features Red Letter, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780805057577 / 0805057579
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Consumer Finance
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98041820
  • Dewey Decimal Code 332.6

About the author

Thomas A. Bass is the author of The Eudaemonic Pie and several other books. He writes for Wired, The New Yorker, and many other magazines. He lives in Clinton, New York.

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