Prefaces: the insights of great minds

Prefaces: the insights of great minds
Author: *
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2013-07-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1291498443

Prologues and prefaces: printed first, penned last. from the likes of Caxton, Copernicus, Goethe, Wordsworth and Walt Whitman. Read the innermost thoughts of great minds, encapsulating in small space reflections on world-moving works. uniquely brought together in a single volume by Ruth Finnegan CALLENDER ACADEMIC SERIES

Prologues and prefaces the insights of great minds

Prologues and prefaces the insights of great minds
Author: Ruth Finnegan
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2013-11-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1291623906

Printed first, thought and penned last., the innermost final thoughts by great thinkers on their world- moving works. Not to be missed. CALLENDER CLASSICS

The Life Cyclists

The Life Cyclists
Author: C. Read
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2011-10-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230349447

Read addresses the contributions of significant individuals to our understanding of financial decisions and markets. Great financial theorists created the basis for what we now know as personal finance and this volume describes four great minds in finance that forever established the role of the rate of return and life cycle decision-making.

The Efficient Market Hypothesists

The Efficient Market Hypothesists
Author: Colin Read
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2015-12-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137292210

Describes the lives, theories, and legacies of six great minds in finance who changed the way we look at financial markets and equilibrium. Bachelier, Samuelson, Fama, Ross, Tobin, and Shiller; proponents and critics of the market efficiency theories who redefined modern finance, creating the foundation on which all financial analysis rests.

The Rise of the Quants

The Rise of the Quants
Author: C. Read
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2012-06-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137026146

The third book in the Great Minds in Finance series examines the pricing of securities and the risk/reward trade off through the legends, contribution, and legacies of Jacob Marschak, William Sharpe, Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton, influencing both theory and practice, answering the question 'how do we measure risk?'

The Portfolio Theorists

The Portfolio Theorists
Author: C. Read
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2011-12-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230362303

Read examines probability, risk, and uncertainty through the contributions of John von Neumann, Leonard Jimmie Savage, Kenneth Arrow and Harry Markowitz. These Portfolio Theorists provided us with a dramatic leap forward in our understanding of and insights into financial rewards under risk and uncertainty.

The Econometricians

The Econometricians
Author: Colin Read
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2016-11-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137341378

This is the seventh book in a series of discussions about the great minds in the history and theory of finance. While the series addresses the contributions of scholars in our understanding of financial decisions and markets, this seventh book describes how econometrics developed and how its underlying assumptions created the underpinning of much of modern financial theory. The author shows that the theorists of econometrics were a mix of mathematicians and cosmologists, entrepreneurs, economists and financial scholars. The author demonstrates that by laying down the foundation of empirical analysis, they also forever determined the way in which we think about financial returns and the vocabulary we employ to describe them. Through this volume, the reader can discover the life stories, inspirations, and theories of Carl Friedrich Gauss, Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Harold Hotelling, Alfred Cowles III, Ragnar Frisch, and Trygve Haavelmo, specifically. We learn how each theorist made an intellectual leap simply by thinking about a conventional problem in an unconventional way.

The Public Financiers

The Public Financiers
Author: Colin Read
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137341343

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Ancient Greek Philosophy

Ancient Greek Philosophy
Author: Thomas A. Blackson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2011-01-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1444396080

Ancient Greek Philosophy: From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers presents a comprehensive introduction to the philosophers and philosophical traditions that developed in ancient Greece from 585 BC to 529 AD. Provides coverage of the Presocratics through the Hellenistic philosophers Moves beyond traditional textbooks that conclude with Aristotle A uniquely balanced organization of exposition, choice excerpts and commentary, informed by classroom feedback Contextual commentary traces the development of lines of thought through the period, ideal for students new to the discipline Can be used in conjunction with the online resources found at http://tomblackson.com/Ancient/toc.html

A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts

A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts
Author: Kerry Kuehn
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1493913662

This book provides a chronological introduction to the science of motion and rest based on the reading and analysis of significant portions of Galileo’s Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, Pascal’s Treatise on the Equilibrium of Fluids and the Weight of the Mass of Air, Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, and Einstein’s Relativity. Each chapter begins with a short introduction followed by a reading selection. Carefully crafted study questions draw out key points in the text and focus the reader’s attention on the author’s methods, analysis, and conclusions. Numerical and laboratory exercises at the end of each chapter test the reader’s ability to understand and apply key concepts from the text. Space, Time and Motion is the second of four volumes in A Student’s Guide through the Great Physics Texts. This book grew out of a four-semester undergraduate physics curriculum designed to encourage a critical and circumspect approach to natural science, while at the same time preparing students for advanced coursework in physics. This book is particularly suitable as a college-level textbook for students of the natural sciences, history or philosophy. It also serves as a textbook for advanced high-school students, or as a thematically-organized source-book for scholars and motivated lay-readers. In studying the classic scientific texts included herein, the reader will be drawn toward a lifetime of contemplation.