Vincent van Gogh

Ronald de Leeuw

This sumptuous presentation of the collection of the Van Gogh Museum is a richly orchestrated picture of 19th-century art, with Vincent van Gogh at its center. The book, illustrated in color throughout, includes a generous selection of works from every period of Van Gogh's creativity. In addition, works originally acquired by Vincent and his brother Theo through purchase or exchange are included -- paintings by Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Monticelli, Pissarro, and others. A broad and diverse selection of European art of the later 19th century provides a further context for Van Gogh's paintings.

Van Gogh Museum

Jeroen Giltaij

Kent Osband, Founder of RiskTick LLC, a consultancy tracking financial turbulence philosophizes that like the atmosphere or the seas, financial markets sometimes get so stirred up that it seems like angry spirits must be stirring them. In fact, any sufficiently abrupt change in beliefs -- including from perfectly rational learning -- is bound to trigger major uncertainty, disagreement and market turbulence: - Turbulence limits predictability and can make perfectly rational investors look foolish. - Turbulence has merits too: without it we might need hundreds of years to recover confidence after deep crisis. - Better appreciation of rational turbulence is key to improving finance theory, financial regulation, and investment practice. This video, one of six from the Wiley WILMOTT Summit on Risk and Quantitative Modeling in Finance, held on the 11th December 2012 at Columbia University, New York feature the presentations from thought leaders and industry experts aiming to draw together some of the lessons of the last decade in order to restate the discipline's fundamental role in driving the future success of the global market economy. This is the time to define what quantitative finance really means beyond the fallout of the global financial crisis and to identify the technology and techniques that will power innovation and growth. Videos in this series include: Paul Wilmott - Recent Advances in Stupid Ideas in Quant Finance Kent Osband - Fooled by Rational Turbulence Aaron Brown - And The Cows That Were Ugly and Gaunt Ate Up The Seven Sleek, Fat Cows Patrick S. Hagan - On Beyond Black: Volatility Surfaces and Dark Noise Edward O. Thorp - What Finance Has Taught Me Chaired by Jack Schwager - Wiley Wilmott Summit Debate, Is Finance the sickness or the cure? Joined by Paul Wilmott, Kent Osband, Aaron Brown and Patrick S. Hagan

Ronald de Leeuw

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