My Life as a Quant  (English, Electronic book text, Derman Emanuel)

Quiet a good book , gave good knowdlege about how quant works aand how there domain is working extremely helpful for financial domain people

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...