cleaning up the office

found an old paper in my office: 'analytical parametric analysis of the contact problem of human buttocks and negative poisson's ratio foam cushions'. dead serious research, and i'm not sure but i think i did cite it once. it has the only account i could ever find for an analytical solution to hertz-like contact with a finite-thickness plate.  'game theory, maximum entropy, minimum discrepancy and robust bayesian decision theory', peter d. gr\:{u}nwald and a. philip dawid. shows the connection between maximizing entropy and minimizing worst-case expected loss. hefty tome, but relatively readable. the book, 'the statistical mechanics of financial markets', j. voit, 2005, looks like an interesting read. goes into some of the real areas of interest in quantitative finance from a physics perspective.