With more and more physicists and physics students exploring the possibility of utilizing their advanced math skills for a career in the finance industry, this much-needed book quickly introduces them to fundamental and advanced finance principles and methods.

Quantitative Finance for Physicists provides a short, straightforward introduction for those who already have a background in physics. Find out how fractals, scaling, chaos, and other physics concepts are useful in analyzing financial time series. Learn about key topics in quantitative finance such as option pricing,...

From the author. Self-publishing writers should not have a problem with self-reviewing their books. There is a risk, of course, that this may end up with "self-reading." But let me try, anyway.

This is a memoir of a former Soviet physicist of Jewish descent who came to the USA as a tourist and became a financial quant. It's mostly an emigre story. It has some sad pages about my relatives who fled from Nazi Germany and landed in Gulag. My descendants won't find their roots on Ancestry.com; I've written this piece for them, too. This book is also a tale of a man who wanted to be a scientist...