Peter L. Bernstein "Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street"
1993-03-29 | 1993-03-29 | ISBN:0029030129 | 352 pages | PDF | 5,4 Mb
1993-03-29 | 1993-03-29 | ISBN:0029030129 | 352 pages | PDF | 5,4 Mb
A great book to establish an understanding for how the current investment strategies came about. Petere Bernstein did a great job of introducing mathematical masterminds such as Louis Bachelier; the inventor of stochastic analysis concepts, the birth of Dow Jones, the creation of S&P 500 index by Alfred Cowles, Portfolio Selection by Harry Markowitz and many other financial and statistical intellects.