In this book they look at the theories and formulae that underpin the quantitative finance models used by hedge funds and other financial institutions and explain why they’re so flawed in a challenging but interesting read told in a breezy style

There’s a lot of maths and statistics in the early chapters of the book which anyone with a mathseconomicsengineeringeconometrics background will probably find quite basic but if – like me – you worked really hard for that gcse grade c it’s quite challenging to follow and i found myself having to go over the explanations several times in order to follow the basic precepts behind modelling and the history of quantitative finance and the development of financial derivatives