I recently read two books by Emanuel Derman, both of which have a lot to do with both physics and finance. That presumably has a lot to do with his history: He was a physicist in academia before winding up on Wall Street, eventually becoming head of the quantitative risk strategies group at Goldman Sachs. He subsequently returned to academia.

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Feynman Lectures on Computation, by Richard P. Feynman (Edited by Tony Hey and Robin W. Allen. Sadly, it's a posthumous book.)

In a similar spirit to the excellent The Feynman Lectures on Physics, this is a conversion of some of Feynman's lectures to book form. It's a pretty good introduction to a lot of aspects of computers, from obvious topics ( Read more... )

Today's xkcd is very cool.

Or maybe I'm just into economics, relativity and quantum electrodynamics.

Under Heisenberg's filing system, if you know exactly what you're looking for, then you have no idea where it might be. Conversely, if you know exactly where you're looking, you have no idea what you'll find there.

You can have some success in looking for a certain kind of thing in some area, subject to certain fundamental limits.

When Genius Failed, by Roger Lowenstein ( Read more... )