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To: Square_Dealings who wrote (67457)	4/9/2001 11:33:11 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116791

interesting reading assignment: A Derivative Life The Way of an Entrepreneur by J. Orlin Grabbe Packing Heat When I was in grad school, and finally found a few thesis topics sufficiently interesting that I could get inspired about and could also get approval to write on, I came across a partial differential equation that intrigued and mystified me, in a context (utility theory) I wasn't interested in, but which seemed to hold some insight or revelation about something I was writing about (Levy stable random variables). And I kept looking for references that would maybe have details that I could get a clue about what this equation meant. Now, in economics departments in those days almost no one understood option pricing theory—in fact when I first taught in the Finance Department of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, I was the only one in the department that knew anything about it. (This changed in a few years). (cont) zolatimes.com