Download or read book Abandon the Indicator Trade Like Institutional Traders Survival Kit Underground Shocking Secrets and Weird Unusual But Crazy Profitable Behind the Scenes Tricks to Easy Instant Forex Millionaire written by Trader X and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, you are dreaming of blue turquoise beaches, pearl white sand and you day trading from the board of your new sail boat/yacht. The breeze is smooth and even and sailing is a pure pleasure. The wind is gently kissing your head and moving your hair. The day will soon be over and you are about to dock on exotic island in the Caribbean. Another boat is passing by and the captain is giving you a friendly hand wave. Bunch of dolphins are showing off at the bow and jumping and looping beautifully in the water. They are trying to keep up with the boat. The water is crystal clear and you can see the marine life and the spectrum of amazing colors all the way to the bottom of the riff. You throw in the lines to the dock master and retreat to a luxurious resort with full amenities and world class service. After a short break you are down at the local marina bar drinking on something that comes with small umbrella on top. And then you woke up... Not only this was a beautiful exotic dream, sooo wonderful and sweet, you don't believe that it's ended in such a cruel demanding reality. You've been staring in the monitor for hours, your eyes got sooo swollen you could hand a coat on them. In a matter of fact you were so exhausted, falling asleep was a natural reaction of your body. See, you just realized your trade almost reached your target, but not quite, (just about at the point of your dram, where you got to the exquisite resort). After that the price met a hard FIB combined with a round number and a solid support/resistance level. The market reversed sharply on you and you are looking at a huge loss and your account is down 25%. If this scenario looks familiar don't despair. It seems like a short 4 years ago I was in your predicament if not even worse. I say 4 short years, but it did seem like ages passed since then. I can still see myself in clear desperation and depression. Just spent the last dollar to my name, on a risky trade. Entered EUR/USD on a whim from a "guru's article advice." A half hour later got a margin call from the broker and my account was disabled. I thought to myself "that's it; I am done with this nonsense" See, I was dreaming of becoming a big PLEYAHHH...but was drowning in debt and piling up the shelves in my room with the newest shockingly "a slightly different copy" of the previous system. See, the Forex education market is full of "education sharks." This people are preying on newbies and aggressively targeting beginners. But..., I am sick and tired; to see honest people like you, lose their hot cash to the cold broker games. So, I decided to put an end of this and level the plane ones and for all. Honestly I might get some of the big dogs really upset and even mad when they find out this info had leaked out. The book you are about to read reveals the highly guarded secrets of an underground Forex society. You can read all about this in Chapter 8 on "Forex Tips and Tricks page 89." The harsh vivid reality is, that 95% percent of the Forex folks are losers and losing money hurts bad to the bone. However, if you are looking for "kisses and huggies" you won't find it in this book. But, on the opposite, you will get big lumps of hard challenging realities thrown in your lap to lean grow and prosper. So, you I agree; you can possibly amount to discover all the "gold nuggets" and "rich nutty info" you will find in this book on your own. Spend thousands of dollars on paid forums and exclusive mastermind groups. Blow to the wind several years of blind research, guess work and this task is absolutely possible to achieve. But please, take my hard learned lesson to heart; Buy this book now and save countless of hours staring at your monitor and save thousands of your hard earned money. Spend your time with your family and loved ones. Do the right thing. See you on the other side. Trader X

Download or read book Abandon the Indicator Trade Like Institutional Traders Survival Kit Underground Shocking Secrets and Weird Unusual But Profitable Behind the Scenes Tricks to Easy Instant Forex Millionaire written by Trader X and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, you are dreaming of blue turquoise beaches, pearl white sand and you day trading from the board of your new sail boat/yacht. The breeze is smooth and even and sailing is a pure pleasure. The wind is gently kissing your head and moving your hair. The day will soon be over and you are about to dock on exotic island in the Caribbean. Another boat is passing by and the captain is giving you a friendly hand wave. Bunch of dolphins are showing off at the bow and jumping and looping beautifully in the water. They are trying to keep up with the boat. The water is crystal clear and you can see the marine life and the spectrum of amazing colors all the way to the bottom of the riff. You throw in the lines to the dock master and retreat to a luxurious resort with full amenities and world class service. After a short break you are down at the local marina bar drinking on something that comes with small umbrella on top. And then you woke up... Not only this was a beautiful exotic dream, sooo wonderful and sweet, you don't believe that it's ended in such a cruel demanding reality. You've been staring in the monitor for hours, your eyes got sooo swollen you could hand a coat on them. In a matter of fact you were so exhausted, falling asleep was a natural reaction of your body. See, you just realized your trade almost reached your target, but not quite, (just about at the point of your dram, where you got to the exquisite resort). After that the price met a hard FIB combined with a round number and a solid support/resistance level. The market reversed sharply on you and you are looking at a huge loss and your account is down 25%. If this scenario looks familiar don't despair. It seems like a short 4 years ago I was in your predicament if not even worse. I say 4 short years, but it did seem like ages passed since then. I can still see myself in clear desperation and depression. Just spent the last dollar to my name, on a risky trade. Entered EUR/USD on a whim from a "guru's article advice." A half hour later got a margin call from the broker and my account was disabled. I thought to myself "that's it; I am done with this nonsense" See, I was dreaming of becoming a big PLEYAHHH...but was drowning in debt and piling up the shelves in my room with the newest shockingly "a slightly different copy" of the previous system. See, the Forex education market is full of "education sharks." This people are preying on newbies and aggressively targeting beginners. But..., I am sick and tired; to see honest people like you, lose their hot cash to the cold broker games. So, I decided to put an end of this and level the plane ones and for all. Honestly I might get some of the big dogs really upset and even mad when they find out this info had leaked out. The book you are about to read reveals the highly guarded secrets of an underground Forex society. You can read all about this in Chapter 8 on "Forex Tips and Tricks page 89." The harsh vivid reality is, that 95% percent of the Forex folks are losers and losing money hurts bad to the bone. However, if you are looking for "kisses and huggies" you won't find it in this book. But, on the opposite, you will get big lumps of hard challenging realities thrown in your lap to lean grow and prosper. So, you I agree; you can possibly amount to discover all the "gold nuggets" and "rich nutty info" you will find in this book on your own. Spend thousands of dollars on paid forums and exclusive mastermind groups. Blow to the wind several years of blind research, guess work and this task is absolutely possible to achieve. But please, take my hard learned lesson to heart; Buy this book now and save countless of hours staring at your monitor and save thousands of your hard earned money. Spend your time with your family and loved ones. Do the right thing. See you on the other side. Trader X

Download or read book Abandon the Indicator Trade Like Institutional Traders Survival Kit Little Known Forgotten Secrets and Weird Unusual But Crazy Profitable Behind the Scenes Tricks to Easy Instant Forex Millionaire written by Trader X and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, you are dreaming of blue turquoise beaches, pearl white sand and you day trading from the board of your new sail boat/yacht. The breeze is smooth and even and sailing is a pure pleasure. The wind is gently kissing your head and moving your hair. The day will soon be over and you are about to dock on exotic island in the Caribbean. Another boat is passing by and the captain is giving you a friendly hand wave. Bunch of dolphins are showing off at the bow and jumping and looping beautifully in the water. They are trying to keep up with the boat. The water is crystal clear and you can see the marine life and the spectrum of amazing colors all the way to the bottom of the riff. You throw in the lines to the dock master and retreat to a luxurious resort with full amenities and world class service. After a short break you are down at the local marina bar drinking on something that comes with small umbrella on top. And then you woke up... Not only this was a beautiful exotic dream, sooo wonderful and sweet, you don't believe that it's ended in such a cruel demanding reality. You've been staring in the monitor for hours, your eyes got sooo swollen you could hand a coat on them. In a matter of fact you were so exhausted, falling asleep was a natural reaction of your body. See, you just realized your trade almost reached your target, but not quite, (just about at the point of your dram, where you got to the exquisite resort). After that the price met a hard FIB combined with a round number and a solid support/resistance level. The market reversed sharply on you and you are looking at a huge loss and your account is down 25%. If this scenario looks familiar don't despair. It seems like a short 4 years ago I was in your predicament if not even worse. I say 4 short years, but it did seem like ages passed since then. I can still see myself in clear desperation and depression. Just spent the last dollar to my name, on a risky trade. Entered EUR/USD on a whim from a "guru's article advice." A half hour later got a margin call from the broker and my account was disabled. I thought to myself "that's it; I am done with this nonsense" See, I was dreaming of becoming a big PLEYAHHH...but was drowning in debt and piling up the shelves in my room with the newest shockingly "a slightly different copy" of the previous system. See, the Forex education market is full of "education sharks." This people are preying on newbies and aggressively targeting beginners. But..., I am sick and tired; to see honest people like you, lose their hot cash to the cold broker games. So, I decided to put an end of this and level the plane ones and for all. Honestly I might get some of the big dogs really upset and even mad when they find out this info had leaked out. The book you are about to read reveals the highly guarded secrets of an underground Forex society. You can read all about this in Chapter 8 on "Forex Tips and Tricks page 89." The harsh vivid reality is, that 95% percent of the Forex folks are losers and losing money hurts bad to the bone. However, if you are looking for "kisses and huggies" you won't find it in this book. But, on the opposite, you will get big lumps of hard challenging realities thrown in your lap to lean grow and prosper. So, you I agree; you can possibly amount to discover all the "gold nuggets" and "rich nutty info" you will find in this book on your own. Spend thousands of dollars on paid forums and exclusive mastermind groups. Blow to the wind several years of blind research, guess work and this task is absolutely possible to achieve. But please, take my hard learned lesson to heart; Buy this book now and save countless of hours staring at your monitor and save thousands of your hard earned money. Spend your time with your family and loved ones. Do the right thing. See you on the other side. Trader X

Download or read book Abandon the Indicator Trade Like Institutional Traders Survival Kit Hidden Shadow Secrets and Weird Unusual But Crazy Profitable Behind the Scenes Tricks to Easy Instant Forex Millionaire written by Trader X and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, you are dreaming of blue turquoise beaches, pearl white sand and you day trading from the board of your new sail boat/yacht. The breeze is smooth and even and sailing is a pure pleasure. The wind is gently kissing your head and moving your hair. The day will soon be over and you are about to dock on exotic island in the Caribbean. Another boat is passing by and the captain is giving you a friendly hand wave. Bunch of dolphins are showing off at the bow and jumping and looping beautifully in the water. They are trying to keep up with the boat. The water is crystal clear and you can see the marine life and the spectrum of amazing colors all the way to the bottom of the riff. You throw in the lines to the dock master and retreat to a luxurious resort with full amenities and world class service. After a short break you are down at the local marina bar drinking on something that comes with small umbrella on top. And then you woke up... Not only this was a beautiful exotic dream, sooo wonderful and sweet, you don't believe that it's ended in such a cruel demanding reality. You've been staring in the monitor for hours, your eyes got sooo swollen you could hand a coat on them. In a matter of fact you were so exhausted, falling asleep was a natural reaction of your body. See, you just realized your trade almost reached your target, but not quite, (just about at the point of your dram, where you got to the exquisite resort). After that the price met a hard FIB combined with a round number and a solid support/resistance level. The market reversed sharply on you and you are looking at a huge loss and your account is down 25%. If this scenario looks familiar don't despair. It seems like a short 4 years ago I was in your predicament if not even worse. I say 4 short years, but it did seem like ages passed since then. I can still see myself in clear desperation and depression. Just spent the last dollar to my name, on a risky trade. Entered EUR/USD on a whim from a "guru's article advice." A half hour later got a margin call from the broker and my account was disabled. I thought to myself "that's it; I am done with this nonsense" See, I was dreaming of becoming a big PLEYAHHH...but was drowning in debt and piling up the shelves in my room with the newest shockingly "a slightly different copy" of the previous system. See, the Forex education market is full of "education sharks." This people are preying on newbies and aggressively targeting beginners. But..., I am sick and tired; to see honest people like you, lose their hot cash to the cold broker games. So, I decided to put an end of this and level the plane ones and for all. Honestly I might get some of the big dogs really upset and even mad when they find out this info had leaked out. The book you are about to read reveals the highly guarded secrets of an underground Forex society. You can read all about this in Chapter 8 on "Forex Tips and Tricks page 89." The harsh vivid reality is, that 95% percent of the Forex folks are losers and losing money hurts bad to the bone. However, if you are looking for "kisses and huggies" you won't find it in this book. But, on the opposite, you will get big lumps of hard challenging realities thrown in your lap to lean grow and prosper. So, you I agree; you can possibly amount to discover all the "gold nuggets" and "rich nutty info" you will find in this book on your own. Spend thousands of dollars on paid forums and exclusive mastermind groups. Blow to the wind several years of blind research, guess work and this task is absolutely possible to achieve. But please, take my hard learned lesson to heart; Buy this book now and save countless of hours staring at your monitor and save thousands of your hard earned money. Spend your time with your family and loved ones. Do the right thing. See you on the other side. Trader X

Download or read book The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report written by Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial institutions that bankrupted and failed, or would have without help from the government. The commission and the report were implemented after Congress passed an act in 2009 to review and prevent fraudulent activity. The report details, among other things, the periods before, during, and after the crisis, what led up to it, and analyses of subprime mortgage lending, credit expansion and banking policies, the collapse of companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the federal bailouts of Lehman and AIG. It also discusses the aftermath of the fallout and our current state. This report should be of interest to anyone concerned about the financial situation in the U.S. and around the world.THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION is an independent, bi-partisan, government-appointed panel of 10 people that was created to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." It was established as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009. The commission consisted of private citizens with expertise in economics and finance, banking, housing, market regulation, and consumer protection. They examined and reported on "the collapse of major financial institutions that failed or would have failed if not for exceptional assistance from the government."News Dissector DANNY SCHECHTER is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker. He has been reporting on economic crises since the 1980's when he was with ABC News. His film In Debt We Trust warned of the economic meltdown in 2006. He has since written three books on the subject including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books, 2008), and The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big to Jail (Disinfo Books, 2011), a companion to his latest film Plunder The Crime Of Our Time. He can be reached online at www.newsdissector.com.

Download or read book How I Became a Quant written by Richard R. Lindsey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for How I Became a Quant "Led by two top-notch quants, Richard R. Lindsey and Barry Schachter, How I Became a Quant details the quirky world of quantitative analysis through stories told by some of today's most successful quants. For anyone who might have thought otherwise, there are engaging personalities behind all that number crunching!" --Ira Kawaller, Kawaller & Co. and the Kawaller Fund "A fun and fascinating read. This book tells the story of how academics, physicists, mathematicians, and other scientists became professional investors managing billions." --David A. Krell, President and CEO, International Securities Exchange "How I Became a Quant should be must reading for all students with a quantitative aptitude. It provides fascinating examples of the dynamic career opportunities potentially open to anyone with the skills and passion for quantitative analysis." --Roy D. Henriksson, Chief Investment Officer, Advanced Portfolio Management "Quants"--those who design and implement mathematical models for the pricing of derivatives, assessment of risk, or prediction of market movements--are the backbone of today's investment industry. As the greater volatility of current financial markets has driven investors to seek shelter from increasing uncertainty, the quant revolution has given people the opportunity to avoid unwanted financial risk by literally trading it away, or more specifically, paying someone else to take on the unwanted risk. How I Became a Quant reveals the faces behind the quant revolution, offering you?the?chance to learn firsthand what it's like to be a?quant today. In this fascinating collection of Wall Street war stories, more than two dozen quants detail their roots, roles, and contributions, explaining what they do and how they do it, as well as outlining the sometimes unexpected paths they have followed from the halls of academia to the front lines of an investment revolution.

Download or read book Liar s Poker written by Michael Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his experiences on the lucrative Wall Street bond market of the 1980s, where young traders made millions in a very short time, in a humorous account of greed and epic folly.

Download or read book Buffettology written by David Clark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-03-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the world of investing, the name Warren Buffett is synonymous with success and prosperity—now you can learn how Warren Buffett did it and how you can, too. Building from the ground up, Buffett chose wisely and picked his stocks with care, in turn amassing the huge fortune for which he is now famous. Mary Buffett, former daughter-in-law of this legendary financial genius and a successful businesswoman in her own right, has teamed up with noted Buffettologist David Clark to create Buffettology, a one-of-a-kind investment guide that explains the winning strategies of the master. -Learn how to approach investing the way Buffett does, based on the authors' firsthand knowledge of the secrets that have made Buffett the world's second wealthiest man -Use Buffett's proven method of investing in stocks that will continue to grow over time -Master the straightforward mathematical equipments that assist Buffett in making investments -Examine the kinds of companies that capture Buffett's interest, and learn how you can use this information to make your own investment choices of the future Complete with profiles of fifty-four "Buffett companies"—companies in which Buffett has invested and which the authors believe he continues to follow—Buffettology can show any investor, from beginner to savvy pro, how to create a profitable portfolio.

Download or read book Lecturing Birds on Flying written by Pablo Triana and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LECTURING BIRDS ON FLYING For the past few decades, the financial world has often displayed an unreasonable willingness to believe that "the model is right, the market is wrong," in spite of the fact that these theoretical machinations were largely responsible for the stock market crash of 1987, the LTCM crisis of 1998, the credit crisis of 2008, and many other blow-ups, large and small. Why have both financial insiders (traders, risk managers, executives) and outsiders (academics, journalists, regulators, the public) consistently demonstrated a willingness to treat quantifications as gospel? Nassim Taleb first addressed the conflicts between theoretical and real finance in his technical treatise on options, Dynamic Hedging. Now, in Lecturing Birds on Flying, Pablo Triana offers a powerful indictment on the trustworthiness of financial theory, explaining—in jargon-free plain English—how malfunctions in these quantitative machines have wreaked havoc in our real world. Triana first analyzes the fundamental question of whether financial markets can in principle really be solved mathematically. He shows that the markets indeed cannot be tamed with equations, presenting a long and powerful list of obstacles to prove his point: maverick unlawful human actions rule the markets, unexpected and unimaginable events shape the markets, and historical data is not necessarily a trustworthy guide to the future of the markets. The author then examines the sources of origin of many prevalent theories and mathematical dictums. He details how the field of financial economics evolved from a descriptive discipline to an abstract one dedicated to technically concocting professors' own versions of how such a world should work. He goes on to explain how Wall Street and other financial centers became eager employers of scientists, and how scientists became eager employees of financial firms. Triana concludes with an in-depth discussion of the most significant historical episodes of theory-caused real-life market malaise, with a strong emphasis on the current credit crisis. In the end, Lecturing Birds on Flying calls for the radical substitution of good old-fashioned common sense in place of mathematical decision-making and the restoration to financial power of those who are completely unchained to the iron ball of classroom-obtained qualifications.

Download or read book The Truth Machine written by Paul Vigna and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Views differ on bitcoin, but few doubt the transformative potential of Blockchain technology. The Truth Machine is the best book so far on what has happened and what may come along. It demands the attention of anyone concerned with our economic future." —Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard, Former Treasury Secretary From Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna, the authors of The Age of Cryptocurrency, comes the definitive work on the Internet’s Next Big Thing: The Blockchain. Big banks have grown bigger and more entrenched. Privacy exists only until the next hack. Credit card fraud is a fact of life. Many of the “legacy systems” once designed to make our lives easier and our economy more efficient are no longer up to the task. Yet there is a way past all this—a new kind of operating system with the potential to revolutionize vast swaths of our economy: the blockchain. In The Truth Machine, Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna demystify the blockchain and explain why it can restore personal control over our data, assets, and identities; grant billions of excluded people access to the global economy; and shift the balance of power to revive society’s faith in itself. They reveal the disruption it promises for industries including finance, tech, legal, and shipping. Casey and Vigna expose the challenge of replacing trusted (and not-so-trusted) institutions on which we’ve relied for centuries with a radical model that bypasses them. The Truth Machine reveals the empowerment possible when self-interested middlemen give way to the transparency of the blockchain, while highlighting the job losses, assertion of special interests, and threat to social cohesion that will accompany this shift. With the same balanced perspective they brought to The Age of Cryptocurrency, Casey and Vigna show why we all must care about the path that blockchain technology takes—moving humanity forward, not backward.

Download or read book What You Need to Know Before Trading Forex and Stocks Industry Secrets Revealed written by Matthew Cheung and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet is an introduction to what you need to know before trading Forex and Stocks - industry secrets revealed. It is an introduction for those who have no pre-existing knowledge of the infrastructure of the financial market and how they can prevent themselves from being a victim of common unethical scams. It will give you an insight into the correct approach to investing, and how you can become a passive or active investor. After completing this booklet, you should be able to:1. Understand how saving doesn't protect you from the rising costs of goods and services (consumer price index, CPI) 2. Understand subjectivity of risk and the misconception that risk is equal for all levels of participants of the financial market. 3. Recognise how the current pension system is failing to meet the needs of retirement for the majority of U.K citizens. 4. Understand what passive investing entails, and the historical returns of benchmark investing. 5. Compare the future outcomes of various savings and investment returns based on assumptions of historical data. 6. Understand the structure of the financial market, where the Exchanges, Investment Banks, Retail Brokers, Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, Educators and Retail Traders all fit together. 7. Breakdown exactly how a retail brokerage makes revenue, and their inherent conflicts of interest with their retail trading clients.8. Ability to spot the "red-flags" of unethical, shady, and misinformation-providers of the retail industry.9. Outline the "Global-macro" approach, risk, return and outcome of professional investment and trading.10. Differentiate between "smart" and "dumb" money participants. 11. Understand the basic concept of systematic trading for Asset Management job roles and to manage your personal portfolio. Learn through LITA by Logikfx.

Download or read book Made to Break written by Giles Slade and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. Giles Slade explains how disposability was a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. This book gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives, we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well.

Download or read book Ask the Bugman written by Richard Fagerlund and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to control household pests in a more environmentally friendly way.

Download or read book Rochester written by Jenny Marsh Parker and published by Rochester, N.Y. : Scrantom, Wetmore. This book was released on 1884 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ludwig Boltzmann written by Carlo Cercignani and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-01-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the life and personality, the scientific and philosophical work of Ludwig Boltzmann, one of the great scientists who marked the passage from 19th- to 20th-Century physics. His rich and tragic life, ending by suicide at the age of 62, is described in detail. A substantial part of the book is devoted to discussing his scientific and philosophical ideas and placing them in the context of the second half of the 19th century. The fact that Boltzmann was the man who did most to establish that there is a microscopic, atomic structure underlying macroscopic bodies is documented, as is Boltzmann's influence on modern physics, especially through the work of Planck on light quanta and of Einstein on Brownian motion. Boltzmann was the centre of a scientific upheaval, and he has been proved right on many crucial issues. He anticipated Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions and proposed a theory of knowledge based on Darwin. His basic results, when properly understood, can also be stated as mathematical theorems. Some of these have been proved: others are still at the level of likely but unproven conjectures. The main text of this biography is written almost entirely without equations. Mathematical appendices deepen knowledge of some technical aspects of the subject.

Download or read book Brands of Faith written by Mara Einstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of fascinating case studies of faith brands, marketing insider Mara Einstein has produced a lively account of the book in the commercialization of religion.

Download or read book The Mis Behaviour of Markets written by Benoit B. Mandelbrot and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This international bestseller, which foreshadowed a market crash, explains why it could happen again if we don't act now. Fractal geometry is the mathematics of roughness: how to reduce the outline of a jagged leaf or static in a computer connection to a few simple mathematical properties. With his fractal tools, Mandelbrot has got to the bottom of how financial markets really work. He finds they have a shifting sense of time and wild behaviour that makes them volatile, dangerous - and beautiful. In his models, the complex gyrations of the FTSE 100 and exchange rates can be reduced to straightforward formulae that yield a much more accurate description of the risks involved.