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Scott Patterson is a freelance writer covering Wall Street. He is currently working on a new book about the rise of electronic trading and artificial intelligence.

He spent six years as a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal and has also written for the New York Times, Rolling Stone and Mother Earth News....

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“Scott Patterson has the ability to see things you and I don’t notice. In The Quants he does an admirable job of debunking the myths of black box traders and provides a very entertaining narrative in the process.”

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author of FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS and THE BLACK SWAN

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THE QUANTS: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
-- By Scott Patterson, Staff Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

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