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.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc
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28 mm
Height
231 mm
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164 mm
Weight
508 gr
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Quant Demystified
Quiet a good book , gave good knowdlege about how quant works aand how there domain is working extremely helpful for financial domain people
Exciting journey in transition from physics to finance
Emanuel has tried to draw parrelal between theories in physics and how they can be applied to finance. He takes through his various phases of life from his undergrade college days in south africa to his doing phd in US and then his post doc positions at uk and us and then working at goldman sachs and soloman brothers. IN the end emanuel shows how he build various models in finance and how he did it provide some insights into the working of the quants. However he did not became another einstie...