>>14093824>Is finance a science?The scientific method, and mathematical techniques, can both be applied to finance to achieve certain goals.
For example, the most successful quant fund of all time (The Medallion fund) purely uses technical analysis and mathematics for their trading, without any underlying market intuition or assumptions.
Quantitative finance is in many ways a complex optimization problem.
Here's a good recent blog post from an energy trader at Citadel about the specific optimization problems that he works on -
https://www.neelsomani.com/blog/explaining-to-my-parents-what-i-do.phpSo, is finance a science? Yes at the micro level, scientific techniques can be applied. No at a macro level.
