Pricing the Future magic of the lost known as the Sheep Queen

known as the Sheep Queen ("surely one of the most fascinating characters in current fiction" —Publishers Weekly)

It was at Riggs that Gordon was "rescued" by the maverick psychoanalyst Leslie Farber

advocates and patients

and finally attends the prom -- bringing readers the thrill of recapturing a misspent youth and discovering what's most important: simple pleasures

and the state's readmission to the Union after the War

Pricing the Future magic of the lost known as the Sheep QueenOptions have been traded for hundreds of years, but investment decisions were based on gut feelings until the Nobel Prize winning discovery of the Black Scholes options pricing model in 1973 ushered in the era of the "quants." Wall Street would never be the same. In Pricing the Future, financial economist George G. Szpiro tells the fascinating stories of the pioneers of mathematical finance who conducted the search for the elusive options pricing