A Bit About

This is the Green Room. More specifically, this is a blog that aims to illuminate four major fields – finance, risk, data, and math – along with many tangents into photography, cars, maps, technology and the occasional quote from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

TGR’s motivation may be found in part within this excerpt from H. G. Wells’ book Mankid in the Making:

The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.

TGR takes its name from the film My Fellow Americans, in which the following rapid dialogue takes place as two former presidents try to rush a tour through the White House:

Douglas:   This is the Green Room.
Kramer:    It’s a room.
Douglas:   It’s green.
Kramer:    Hence it’s name.
Douglas:   Any questions?
Kramer:    Not from me.
Douglas:   Okay, then shall we…?

Welcome to The Green Room. Please enjoy, and above all: don’t panic. Feel free to contact me with suggestions, questions or death threats as you like.

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