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by DrBen
July 26th, 2021, 2:12 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Philosophy of Mathematics
Replies: 499
Views: 140259

Re: Philosophy of Mathematics

Hardy is credited with reforming British mathematics by bringing rigour into it, which was previously a characteristic of French, Swiss and German mathematics.[citation needed] British mathematicians had remained largely in the tradition of applied mathematics, in thrall to the reputation of Isaac ...
by DrBen
July 26th, 2021, 12:11 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Philosophy of Mathematics
Replies: 499
Views: 140259

Re: Philosophy of Mathematics

Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology In my teen's I treasured this book, I also inherited the anti-applied math slant, with the probably unhelpful idealism (but we are all young once). Would also add 'Discourse on the Method' by René Descartes, a must for all! The motto, 'the world is the encyclopedia ...
by DrBen
July 25th, 2021, 10:38 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Philosophy of Mathematics
Replies: 499
Views: 140259

Re: Philosophy of Mathematics

Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology In my teen's I treasured this book, I also inherited the anti-applied math slant, with the probably unhelpful idealism (but we are all young once). Would also add 'Discourse on the Method' by René Descartes, a must for all! The motto, 'the world is the encyclopedia ...
by DrBen
March 12th, 2020, 11:44 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Philosophy of Mathematics
Replies: 499
Views: 140259

Re: Philosophy of Mathematics

All was not lost; at the time Schwartz, Sobolev and others took the delta function by the scruff of the neck and generalize to the theory of Distributions, without which there would be no Finite Element Method. The concrete example again.. So, instead of huffing and puffing with Fourier and integra...
by DrBen
February 5th, 2018, 8:22 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Philosophy of Mathematics
Replies: 499
Views: 140259

Re: Philosophy of Mathematics

Duplicate...
by DrBen
February 5th, 2018, 8:21 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Philosophy of Mathematics
Replies: 499
Views: 140259

Re: Philosophy of Mathematics

Putting conventions aside (i.e. base 10 versus another number, 24 hours a day and so on), and underlying philosophical explanation for why mathematics itself (i.e. ideas not conventions if that makes sense) reflects the reality we find ourselves has a long and rich history. Plato's Theory of Forms ,...
by DrBen
June 13th, 2011, 8:43 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Front Office Quant Developers in New York earn on average $192K
Replies: 3
Views: 21143

Front Office Quant Developers in New York earn on average $192K

Here have much higher bonus % than for UK numbers, I assume this is due to selection bias. Any chance of more detail, adjustments etc
by DrBen
June 13th, 2011, 8:35 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Front Office Quant Developers in London earn £144K
Replies: 13
Views: 22091

Front Office Quant Developers in London earn £144K

<t>Thx Dominic and moreover thx two all people who filled out your online form. Any chance of details at least qualitative incite into these numbers. Like Hansi said I assume bulk of people who submitted data were contractors. If this that case and I assume it is then if take straight average the co...
by DrBen
May 3rd, 2011, 9:12 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Quant Developer... how to get there?
Replies: 2
Views: 21802

Quant Developer... how to get there?

Have you actually run a PA account, even if ran a paper trading account say at IB you would least get directly experience with their FIX/API.
by DrBen
May 2nd, 2011, 11:50 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: 2 year general noncompete for the entire industry
Replies: 9
Views: 23065

2 year general noncompete for the entire industry

<t>No idea of the legality but two years is just impractical, in 2 years all sort of things can happen, like have 2 kids (maybe for female quant but even for male quant it harder than think, get ill, fail out with colleagues note 25% start-ups fail because management fail out, etc etc....) But also ...
by DrBen
July 22nd, 2010, 9:24 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Automatic Trading with direct access to broker using QuickFIX
Replies: 7
Views: 30437

Automatic Trading with direct access to broker using QuickFIX

<r>artinia: Several times over past 6 months thought about undertaking a similar project. There is a product that performs similar role at:<URL url="http://www.macd.com/xlfix/but">http://www.macd.com/xlfix/but</URL> would rather build myself exactly what after. Personally penciling needing developer...
by DrBen
June 9th, 2009, 3:24 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: how can i find cheap programmers in Miami?
Replies: 19
Views: 40568

how can i find cheap programmers in Miami?

QuoteTwoFish: You could get an ethnic Chinese...This guy tried spent a lot of time in China and after 2 years it came to nothing. Like everythinglooks good in theory but its in the details which make or break the deal.
by DrBen
June 5th, 2009, 4:26 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: how can i find cheap programmers in Miami?
Replies: 19
Views: 40568

how can i find cheap programmers in Miami?

<t>Quote...go to india/china...Can't say anything meaningful generic about these locations but I have had good experience with testersin India very motivated and through. With China no direct experience but but had a friend who was sent toset up team for Wireless router programming, basically set up...
by DrBen
June 5th, 2009, 3:10 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Vendors providing trading API's
Replies: 1
Views: 41569

Vendors providing trading API's

<r>I suggest taking a look at:1) FXTrade at Oanda: <URL url="http://fxtrade.oanda.com/forex_trading/fxtrade/api_trading.shtml2"><LINK_TEXT text="http://fxtrade.oanda.com/forex_trading/ ... ing.shtml2">http://fxtrade.oanda.com/forex_trading/fxtrade/api_trading.shtml2</LINK_TEXT></URL>) Saxo Bank: <UR...
by DrBen
June 5th, 2009, 1:15 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: VBA Course in London
Replies: 29
Views: 86966

VBA Course in London

<r>The cost of all these courses (in time and money) does not always reflect the value of these courses. This is reallya quote from someone who pre-Lehman was teaching these courses. Anyway, personally I suggest just taking alook at code at some where like:<URL url="http://www.vbnumericalmethods.com...
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