Robert King Merton

Quant Corner Robert Merton Merton model for valuing corporate debt

‚robert merton, who’s best known for his academic work in developing option-pricing models, published his first scholarly paper on a topic far removed from finance: Gulliver’s Travels. While an undergraduate at Columbia University in New York, he wrote a piece for a literature class that analyzed the physical impossibility of a flying island as described in Jonathan Swift’s classic work. Merton...

Foreword to the book, Citation Indexing by Robert K. Merton

I like to read some general significance into Eugene Garfield’s having offered me the privilege of introducing the reader to this book, which sets out the history, method, and implications of his distinctive contribution to the advancement of science: the first multidisciplinary citation index to the scientific literature. My being a close friend cannot account for his having done so. Gene has ...

Robert C. King: an appreciation of his work.

THE advance of scientific knowledge is a combined early differentiation of the Drosophila egg chamber in product of both the contributions of the individual the 1960s. Through painstaking three-dimensional (3D) scientist and the acceptance and authentication of his reconstructions of serially sectioned egg chambers, they or her work over time by the larger scientific community. deciphered the p...

Speech in Honor of Robert C . Merton 1999 Mathematical Finance Day Lifetime Achievement Award

The Matthew Effect in Science, II : Cumulative Advantage and the Symbolism of Intellectual Property by Robert K. Merton

T HE SUBJECT OF THIS ESSAY is a problem in the sociology of science that has long been of interest to me. That problem, a candid friend tells me, is somewhat obscured by the formidable title assigned to it. Yet, properly deciphered, the title is not nearly as opaque as it might at first seem. Consider first the signal emitted by the Roman numeral II in the main title. It informs us that the pap...