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The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
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The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It In March of 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes, but those numbers meant nothing to them. They were accustomed to risking billions. 
At the card table that night was Peter Muller, an eccentric, whip-smart whiz kid who’d studied theoretical mathematics at Princeton and now managed a fabulously successful hedge fund called PDT…when he wasn’t playing his keyboard for morning commuters on the New York subway. 
 
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