Review of Robin Waterfield, The Making a King: Antigonus Gonatas Macedon and the Greeks (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).

The computation of Greeks is a fundamental task for risk managing financial instruments. standard approach to their numerical evaluation via finite differences. Most exotic derivatives are priced Monte Carlo simulation: in these cases, it hard find fast and accurate approximation Greeks, mainly because the need tradeoff between bias variance. Recent improvements computation, such as Adjoint Alg...

The history of Greece extends far beyond the period described above, but for the purposes of our study in music history, we will confine our analysis of Greek musical development to the period where the most advances were being made and where music played the most significance in society. This is not to say that music did not play a large part in Greek culture before then, only that the most im...

Volatility is a widely recognized measure of market risk. As volatility is not observed it has to be estimated from market prices, i.e., as the implied volatility from option prices. The volatility index VIX making volatility a tradeable asset in its own right is computed from nearand next-term put and call options on the S&P 500 with more than 23 days and less than 37 days to expiration and no...

The Mediterranean diet is upheld in the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines as an example of an eating pattern that promotes good health, a healthy body weight, and disease prevention throughout the lifespan. The Mediterranean eating pattern is based on a variety of unprocessed plant foods including fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds that are high in polyphenols. The majority o...