- Paul Wilmott
Paul Wilmott is a researcher, consultant and lecturer in
quantitative finance . [http://www.financial-gurus.com/gurus/2000/Paul-Wilmott Financial gurus] ] . He is the author of various academic and practitioner texts on risk and derivatives;Wilmott magazine and wilmott.com, a quantitative finance portal.Wilmott is the Course Director for the "Certificate in Quantitative Finance" at 7city Learning, a London-based company providing training for the financial services industry. [ [http://www.7city.com/cqf Certificate in Quantitative Finance] ] He is a founding partner of Caissa Capital, a
volatility arbitrage hedge fund [ [http://www.caissacapitalltd.com/ Caissa Capital Ltd] ] . He is on the editorial board of theacademic journal "International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance" [ [http://www.journals.wspc.com.sg/ijtaf/mkt/editorial.shtml Journals] ] .Wilmott founded the "Diploma in Mathematical Finance" at Oxford University; [ [http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/postgraduate/caz/conted/mfin.shtml Diploma in Mathematical Finance at Oxford University] ] and the journal "Applied Mathematical Finance". [ [http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/1350486X.html "Applied Mathematical Finance"] ]
Wilmott’s books are popular for their presentation of "complex subjects in an accessible and often humorous way" [ [http://www.palisade.com/2006Conf/PE/presenters.asp Palisade] ] . He has written research articles on finance and mathematics, and has authored the following textbooks:
*"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).References
ee also
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Financial Engineering
*Mathematical finance External links
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/opinion/18wilmott.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin Interview of Paul Wilmott in New York times]
* [http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2008/08/13/Paul-Wilmotts-Financial-Magazine Interview with Paul Wilmott in Portfolio Magazine]
* [http://www.wilmottwiki.com/wiki/index.php/Wilmott,_Paul Profile on wilmott.com]
* [http://www.wilmott.com/magazine.cfm Wilmott Magazine]
* [http://www.wilmott.com/ wilmott.com]
* [http://www.7city.com/cqf Certificate in Quantitative Finance]
* [http://www.caissacapitalltd.com/ Caissa Capital]
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