Scott Patterson (author)
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Scott Patterson is a financial reporter who follows technology and complex trading strategies and how they affect Main Street. His work has also been featured in the New York Times, Rolling Stone
and Mother Earth News
. He is an alumnus of James Madison University
. He lives in New York City
. He worked for six years at The Wall Street Journal
newspaper and recently left the paper to write a book about the rise of electronic trading, markets and the use of artificial intelligence on Wall Street.
His first featured book is The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It.
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
and Mother Earth News
Mother Earth News
Mother Earth News is a bi-monthly American magazine that has a circulation of 475,000. It is based in Topeka, Kansas.Approaching environmental problems from a down-to-earth, practical, how-to standpoint, Mother Earth News has, since the magazine’s founding in 1970, been a pioneer in the promotion...
. He is an alumnus of James Madison University
James Madison University
James Madison University is a public coeducational research university located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, U.S. Founded in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg, the university has undergone four name changes before settling with James Madison University...
. He lives in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. He worked for six years at The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
newspaper and recently left the paper to write a book about the rise of electronic trading, markets and the use of artificial intelligence on Wall Street.
His first featured book is The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It.