Background Quote by Blythe Masters

The world of derivatives is full of holes that very few people are really aware of. It's like hydrogen and oxygen sitting on the…

— Charlie Munger

In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go…

— Jack Welch

Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions…

— Charles Hermite

Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.

— Conrad Wolfram

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

I certainly could've made a lot more money buying cheap ingredients, and people might not have been able to tell the difference. That was…

— Steve Ells

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

— John Hull

Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found…

— Andrew Wiles

It's fascinating to learn math and science and engineering.

— Shannon Walker

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

— Karl Marx

Basically, we try to buy value expressed in the differential between its price and what we think its worth.

— Walter Schloss

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

— Alan Watts