Physicists on Wall Street and Other Essays on Science and Society

Economists.- Options.- Black-Scholes.- The Rise and Fall of the Quants.- Scientists.- Heisenberg in Poland.- The Orion.- Tales from South Africa.- A Nuclear Supermarket.- Ottavio Baldi: The Life and Times of Sir Henry Wotton.- Linguists.- The Spencers of Althorp and Sir William Jones: A Love Story.- All That Glitters.- In a Word, "Lions".- Fiction and Stranger than Fiction.- The Pianist, Fiction and Non-fiction.- Rocket Science.- The Science of Michel Thomas.- Topology.- What the #$*!?.