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String Theory

    The best books on Physics and Financial Markets, recommended by James Owen Weatherall

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    The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
    by Benoit B. Mandelbrot
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    Foundations of Economic Analysis
    by Paul A. Samuelson
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    Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
    by Didier Sornette
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    Beat the Market: A Scientific Stock Market System
    by Edward O. Thorp and Sheen T. Kassouf
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    The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
    by Lee Smolin

The best books on Physics and Financial Markets, recommended by James Owen Weatherall

Blaming "the quants" for the recent financial crisis is simplistic and short-sighted, says the author of The Physics of Wall Street. He picks five books showing the contribution physics has made to understanding financial markets. 

    The best books on String Theory, recommended by Steven Gubser

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    Superstring Theory (Vols 1 and 2)
    by E Witten, J Schwarz & M Green
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    String Theory (Vols 1 and 2)
    by Joseph Polchinski
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    The Elegant Universe
    by Brian Greene
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    A First Course in String Theory
    by Barton Zwiebach
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    Lectures on String Theory
    by D Lust and S Theisen

The best books on String Theory, recommended by Steven Gubser

What is string theory, and why should we bother finding out? The Princeton physics professor explains

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