[R-SIG-Finance] Fwd: Turing's Cathedral

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I'm reading George Dyson's "Turing's Cathedral", ostensibly a history
of the Princeton computer project circa 1945-1955, but more than
anything else a biography of John von Neuman, the animating force
behind the project.

http://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Universe/dp/1400075998

There are lots of bits in it that might be of interest here, perhaps
none more so than page 190 and the few pages following which sketch
out Stan Ulam's creation of Monte Carlo simulation. I won't give it
away as it is a good story.

Enjoy,

    John