My Life as a Quant

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"There are few "gentlemen bankers" left these days. Nor is theremuch room in the great financial houses for anything that smacks ofthe amateur spirit. That is why Emanuel Derman's memoirs are socompelling...Derman's wry humour and sense of irony areapparent throughout the book." - Financial Times "That sense of being an intruder in outlaw territory lends anintriguing mood to Derman's My Life As a Quant, a literateand entertaining memoir." -Business Week "engaging" --(CFO Europe, October 2005) "Not only a delightful memoir, but one full of information, bothabout people and their enterprise. I never thought that I would beinterested in quantitative financial analysis, but reading thisbook has been a fascinating education." -Jeremy Bernstein,author of Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma "This wonderful autobiography takes place in that special timewhen scientists discovered Wall Street and Wall Street discoveredthem. It is elegantly written by a gifted observer who was apioneering member of the new profession of financial engineering,with an evident affection both for finance as a science and for thescientists who practice it. Derman's portrait of how theacademics brought their new financial science to the world ofbusiness and forever changed it and, especially, his descriptionsof the late and extraordinary genius Fischer Black who became hismentor, reveal a surprising humanity where it might be leastexpected. Who should read this book? Anyone with a serious interestin finance and everyone who simply wants to enjoy a goodread."-Stephen Ross, Franco Modigliani Professor of Financeand Economics, Sloan School, MIT