(MoneyWatch) James Weatherall, physicist and mathematician, has written a fascinating account of how physicists have been instrumental in advancing the science of investing. His book "The Physics of ...

The global downturn is often blamed on the City's overreliance on complicated financial models. Yet the conclusion of The Physics of Wall Street by James Weatherall, an academic at the University of ...

Students at Sage Hill School, an elite private school on the Newport Coast, are beyond wondering if they’ll be physicists or financial analysts when they grow up. They’ll be both. At a lecture ...

After the economic meltdown of 2008, many pundits placed the blame on "complex financial instruments" and the physicists and mathematicians who dreamed them up. But how is it that physicists came to ...

Voters didn’t think their states failed on pandemic response. Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall respond to Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee. Cailin O’Connor James Owen Weatherall ...