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Review"There are few "gentlemen bankers" left these days. Nor is there much room in the great financial houses for anything that smacks of the amateur spirit. That is why Emanuel Derman's memoirs are so compelling...Derman's wry humour and sense of irony are apparent throughout the book."- Financial Times"That sense of being an intruder in outlaw territory lends an intriguing mood to Derman's My Life As a Quant, a literate and entertaining memoir."-Business Week"engaging"--(CFO Europe, October 2005)"Not only a delightful memoir, but one full of information, both about people and their enterprise. I never thought that I would be interested in quantitative financial analysis, but reading this book has been a fascinating education."–Jeremy Bernstein, author of Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma"This wonderful autobiography takes place in that special time when scientists discovered Wall Street and Wall Street discovered them. It is elegantly written by a gifted observer who was a pioneering member of the new profession of financial engineering, with an evident affection both for finance as a science and for the scientists who practice it. Derman’s portrait of how the academics brought
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Emanuel] Emanuel Derman
- Publisher
- chenjin5.com 万千书友聚集地
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Biography, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.71 / 5 (1,512 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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