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My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
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An excellent memoir by Emanuel Derman reflecting on his life in physics and financial markets.
An excellent memoir by Emanuel Derman that reflects on his life in physics and financial markets.
A memoir by Emanuel Derman reflecting on his life in the fields of physics and financial markets.
A memoir by Emanuel Derman about his career transition from theoretical physics to finance, capturing the journey and challenges faced in the world of quantitative finance.
A memoir by Emanuel Derman focusing on his journey from studying physics at Columbia University to his life in Manhattan, encapsulating his experiences and reflections on academia and finance.
In My Life as a Quant, Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high-energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. Page by page, Derman details his adventures in this field―analyzing the incompatible personas of traders and quants, and discussing the dissimilar nature of knowledge in physics and finance. Throughout this tale, he also reflects on the appropriate way to apply the refined methods of physics to the hurly-burly world of markets.