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Dr Timothy C Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences; Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics at Heriot-Watt University, Scotland. He has a PhD in financial mathematics from King’s College London, a BSc in physics from Imperial College, London, and a MSc in financial mathematics from King’s College London. Prior to studying for his BSc he worked in the energy industry for 16 years. Timothy joined Heriot-Watt in September 2006 as the UK Research Council’s Academic Fellow in Financial Mathematics where he is responsible for trying to explain the science of financial mathematics to the general public. His research interests are in the field of optimal decision making under uncertainty, focusing on optimal stochastic control. div> Chapter 1. The genesis of money and its impact Chapter 2. Finance and ethics in medieval Europe Chapter 3. Finance, mathematics and the foundations of modernity Chapter 4. The philosophical basis of modernity Chapter 5. The financial revolution of the late seventeenth century Chapter 6. The Enlightenment and l’homme clair Chapter 7. Practical mathematics: the development of probability theory Chapter 8. The emergence Homo economicus in the nineteenth century Chapter 9. The ascendency of Financial Economics Chapter 10. The Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing Chapter 11. Two women and a duck: a pragmatic theory of markets Chapter 12. Some implications of a pragmatic approach to finance
