William Shaw (born 14 May 1958) is a British

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, and formerly professor of the mathematics and computation of risk at

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. He is a consultant on

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, an author of a primary book on using

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to model financial derivatives, formerly co-

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of the journal ''Applied Mathematical Finance''. Shaw studied at

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...

, where he studied mathematics; he was Wrangler and earned a B.A. in 1980. In 1981 he won the

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for his performance on the

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. In 1984 he received a D.Phil. (PhD) in mathematical physics from

Wolfson College, Oxford Wolfson College () is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Located in north Oxford along the River Cherwell, Wolfson is an all-graduate college with around sixty governing body fellows, in addition to both research and ...

. From 1984 to 1987 he was a research fellow at Clare College, Cambridge and C.L.E. Moore Instructor at the

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. From 1987 to 1990, he worked for Smith Associates in Guildford, and ECL in Henley-on Thames. From 1991 to 2002 he was a lecturer in mathematics at Balliol College, Oxford. In 2002 he moved to

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, where he was University Lecturer in financial mathematics. In 2006 he moved to a Professorship at

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and in 2011 to a Professorship at UCL. He returned to the financial industry in 2012 and remained a visiting professor at UCL until 2017.

Books

* Applied Mathematica: Getting Started, Getting it Done by W.T. Shaw and J. Tigg. Addison-Wesley, 1993. * Modelling Financial Derivatives with Mathematica by W.T. Shaw, Cambridge University Press, 1998. * Complex Analysis with Mathematica by W.T. Shaw, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

References

External links

William Shaw's former UCL web-page

Entry in Mathematics Genealogy Project

LinkedIn profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shaw, William 1958 births Living people Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Academics of King's College London Academics of University College London English mathematicians Mathematical finance Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty