#Scott Patterson has the ability to see things you and I don#t notice. In The Quants he does an admirable job of debunking the myths of black box traders and provides a very entertaining narrative in the process.# --Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan #Read this book if you want to understand how the collapse of the global financial system was at its core a failure of modern financial theory and its most ardent disciples. Patterson is able to gracefully explain the complex ideas underpinning our financial system through an extraordinarily engaging and insightful story.# --Mark Zandi, Chief Economist of Moody#s Economy.com and author of Financial Shock "Enlightening and enjoyable...Patterson masterfully recounts how brilliant mathematicians and technologists ignored the human element...If you're serious about understanding the financial meltdown, you need to read this book." --David Vise, Pulitzer Prize Winner, author of The Google Story, and Senior Advisor, New Mountain Capital