A year ago, it was hardly unthinkable that a math wizard like David X. Li might someday earn a Nobel Prize. After all, financial economists—even Wall Street quants—have received the Nobel in economics ...

KAI RYSSDAL: With Wall Street down to somewhere near half of where it was 18 months ago, there is an understandable temptation to try and figure out why. Inevitably that’s a complicated question. And ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What this paper reveals that really stands out is that the quant community also didn’t, and doesn’t, rate the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Never were truer words spoken of a mathematical formula. Out on Friday — some über-Geeky weekend reading for ...