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I don't suppose the world of chess is nearly as popular on Wall Street as baseball. Nevertheless, for all the domestic students who aren't aware that "chess professional" is not, in fact, an oxymoron, here's the skinny: Reigning champion Viswanathan Anand has travelled many miles across...

After I read Fooled by Randomness, I was inspired: Taleb/Nero's trading style, of steady bleeding in anticipation of huge gains, and his profiting from the stubborn human vices of failing to acknowledge Black Swans and assuming the world would conform to mathematical models, seemed like...

I'm interested in computational finance/financial engineering, but I'd like to get a more general degree than an MFE (general intellectual curiosity, plus I have a friend at Deutsche Bank warning me against MFE right now.) I'm considering a phD in Statistics or computational mathematics, but...