Sat 30 Jun 2007
In the 80s, Tracy Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine attempted to define the story of the development of a minicomputer: from the new science to the business and nascent culture of electronic hardware and software that was characteristic of that time. Scott Rosenberg’s Dreaming in Code draws on Kidder’s model as it attempts to document the state of software, the Internet, (more…)
Sat 30 Jun 2007
Sat 30 Jun 2007
By incorporating real time into the analysis of sales and purchases, the phenomena of product innovation, advertising and distribution, the provision of consumer credit, and, ultimately, the production of a changing workforce all become intrinsic to (more…)
Sat 30 Jun 2007
This book is very easy to read and one can gain a quick snapshot of computational issues arising in financial mathematics. Researchers or students of the mathematical sciences with an interest in finance will find this book a very helpful and gentle guide to the world of financial engineering. SIAM review (46, 2004). (more…)
