Paul Wilmott is a researcher, consultant and lecturer in quantitative finance. [1]. He is best known as the author of various academic and practitioner texts on risk and derivatives, [1] and for Wilmott magazine and wilmott.com, a quantitative finance portal.
He is the Course Director for the Certificate in Quantitative Finance at 7city Learning, a London-based company providing training for the financial services industry.[2] He is a founding partner of Caissa Capital, a volatility arbitrage hedge fund [3]. He is on the editorial board of the academic journal International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance [4]. He founded the Diploma in Mathematical Finance at Oxford University;[5] and the journal Applied Mathematical Finance.[6]
His books are popular for their presentation of "complex subjects in an accessible and often humorous way" [7]. He has written research articles on finance and mathematics, and, amongst others, has authored the following textbooks:
* Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance (Wiley 2006)
* Paul Wilmott On Quantitative Finance (Wiley 2006)
* Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance (Wiley 2007)
* With J.N.Dewynne and S.D.Howison, Mathematics of Financial Derivatives: a Student Introduction. (Cambridge University Press 1995).
He studied mathematics at St Catherine’s College, Oxford University, where he received his D.Phil in Applied mathematics in 1985 [8].
[edit] References
1. ^ a b Financial gurus
2. ^ Certificate in Quantitative Finance
3. ^ Caissa Capital Ltd
4. ^ Journals
5. ^ Diploma in Mathematical Finance at Oxford University
6. ^ Applied Mathematical Finance
7. ^ Palisade
8. ^ Interview: Condé Nast Portfolio
[edit] See also
* Financial Engineering
* Mathematical finance
[edit] External links
* Profile on wilmott.com
* Wilmott Magazine
* wilmott.com
* Certificate in Quantitative Finance
* Caissa Capital
* opinion piece: New York Times
* Interview: Condé Nast Portfolio
* In Business Week
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