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Nerds on wall street a blog for market and financial technology. Feb 02, 2017 in his perimeter institute public lecture, james weatherall tells the story of how, in the aftermath of world war ii, some innovative physicists and mathematicians saw surprising connections. Coherence properties of light propagated through a. He tells the story of how physicists first moved to finance, bringing.
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