Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition.

Preface to the First Edition.

1 The Quantitative Finance Timeline.

2 FAQs.

3 The Financial Modellers' Manifesto.

4 Essays.

5 The Commonest Mistakes in Quantitative Finance: A Dozen Basic Lessons in Commonsense for Quants and Risk Managers and the Traders Who Rely on Them.

6 The Most Popular Probability Distributions and Their Uses in Finance.

7 Twelve Different Ways to Derive Black-Scholes.

8 Models and Equations.

9 The Black-Scholes Formulae and the Greeks.

10 Common Contracts.

11 Popular Quant Books.

12 The Most Popular Search Words and Phrases on Wilmott.com.

13 Brainteasers.

14 Paul & Dominic's Guide to Getting a Quant Job.

Index.

About the Author

Paul Wilmott has been called "the smartest of the quants, he may be the only smart quant" (Portfolio magazine/Nassim Nicholas Taleb), "cult derivatives lecturer" (Financial Times), "the finance industry's Mozart" (Sunday Business), and "financial mathematics guru" (BBC).