Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Robert C. Merton
Born: July 31, 1944 (age 80)
Bio: Robert Cox Merton is an American economist, Nobel laureate in Economics, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, known for his pioneering contributions to continuous-time finance, especially the first continuous-time option pricing model, the Black Scholes formula.
Known for:
- Continuous -Time Finance (1990)
- Financial Economics (2009)
- The Derivatives Sourcebook (2006)
- Theory of rational option pricing (2015)