Dragana talks about financial maths, the nature of research, and women in maths and computer science.

This is the winning article in the ages 11-15 category of the 2017 BSHM schools writing competition.

Deciding who is to blame and who should pay for the financial crisis will be a hot topic at the G8 next week. Financial mathematics received a lot of bad press in the aftermath of the crunch and many believe that it was the popularity of mathematical models – often borrowed from physics — that put the financial system at risk. But now models borrowed from biology are helping us understand how this risk might be reduced.