{"id":2771,"date":"2009-07-06T08:40:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T00:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2014-06-15T16:54:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T08:54:13","slug":"how-maths-killed-lehman-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/how-maths-killed-lehman-brothers-2771","title":{"rendered":"How maths killed Lehman Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Plus<\/i> magazine, from <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.maths.org\/content\/\">maths.org<\/a> recently announced the results of the New Writers Award 2009. The winning articles include <em>Beauty in mathematics<\/em>, <em>The expression that (nearly) explained the Universe<\/em>, <em>Thinking outside the box<\/em> (traveling through higher dimensions) and <em>The Carol syndrome<\/em> (the curse of attractiveness).<\/p>\n<p>Horatio Boedihardjo was a winner in the university category with his neat article How maths killed Lehman Brothers. It contains clear explanations on credit default swaps and the like.<\/p>\n<p>Horatio enrolled at Oxford University as a maths undergraduate when he was 15 and is currently studying for a doctorate in probability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/how-maths-killed-lehman-brothers-2771#comments\" id=\"comms\">2 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/how-maths-killed-lehman-brothers-2771\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/07\/lehman.png\" alt=\"lehman\" title=\"lehman\" width=\"128\" height=\"99\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>Here's an article from a gifted young mathematician on the credit crunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}