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Great introduction and a great buy.

1930s british humorist

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Of genius by genius.I wish he had included a taxonomy of the phyla he discusses; that he had included more on Comedia; that he had referenced cinematic works; that he had examined timelines between theories and works they reference for pattern (are theorists always at least fifty years behind what they study?); and that he had used Adler and Maslow as well as Freud. I also wish that, after tracing adultery through Western literature, he had favored me with his view of this most conventional of unconventional behaviors, for there must be a satyr in those who study satyrs. But this book is a comprehensive analysis of comedy and its theorists in Western literature from Greece to now by one who has spent a lifetime studying both.
The book makes academic history, too. While English Departments were committing academic suicide--by alienating the creative element of their profession with culture wars, puritanism, and even more spiritually debilitating forms of reductionism, one scholar was constorting with its essence, the idea that Literature should be enjoyed. His style is itself a revolt against monstrous monotony. He delights in turning a phrase, demonstrating how adjectives should be used, and baffling the befuddled with periodic sentences. But his main achievement is using concrete literary reference to build a coherent and comprehensive account of what comedy is and where it has been.
A century ago, such a book would have made him famous, because it would have been read by intellectuals on three continents and hailed as a work of genius. Today, his reward is limited to whatever comfort his own theory can generate. There must be some. After all, he's writing about comedy in a culture that thinks satire is a hate crime.


A timely monograph on mathematical aspects of HJM modelsThis monograph, which is based on the PhD thesis of its author at ETH Zurich, contains a rigorous mathematical presentation
of this point of view on HJM models plus a detailed discussion of the so-called "consistency problem": when is a given parametric family of forward rate curves invariant under an evolution specified by an HJM model?
Chapter 2 "Stochastic equations in infinite dimensions" is interesting in itself as a minimal and economical introduction to this topic without needlessly complicated formalism.
For example the infinite dimensional Wiener process is introduced as a sequence of independent scalar Wiener processes
and everything is understandable for a student who knows one dimensional Brownian motion.
Chapters 4 and 5 define a possible mathematical framework for viewing HJM models as evolution equations. This discussion, some of which is original work of the author, is what is missing (or even wrong) in many other works on this topic. I found this chapter clear and helpful; it is the best part of the book.
Chapters 6 and 7 discuss recent researh by Bjork, Christensen, Zabczyk and the author on invariant finite dimensional manifolds for HJM models. Although this is the main focus of the thesis it seems less interesting to me since I never saw any real
motivation of this problem from financial applications.
Some weak points of the book are: total absence of any empirical data, no figures (there is not even a single figure of what a forward curve looks like), no numerical examples showing how "bad" inconsistency can be, ...Also no application is given...But then these are problem typical of the whole corpus of (continental) European literature on mathematical finance.
Another point is the relation between the "infinite dimensional" viewpoint and the "random field" interest rate models. This is discussed in some parts of the text (see Chap 5) but only briefly.


Beyond the 90sIt is a good book for executives with flair for IT.


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