[Interest] thanks for extra reading suggestions - sorry to insult technical writers

[Paul Floyd]

On 12 Apr 2012, at 22:46, Till Oliver Knoll wrote:

> The truth is: the financial industry is dead simple compared to software 
> engineering: throw a little bit of primary school math like addition and 
> multiplication into the game, and you know how Interest Rate Swaps etc. 
> work. Add a little bit of statistics (being able to compute the average 
> already helps a lot) and you become an economist, and if you know about 
> standard deviation, heck, you're champ!

That's rather an exaggeration. The Black-Scholes equation is a PDE, which is a bit beyond the ken of most primary schoolchildren.

A+
Paul