My Life as a Quant (eBook)
304 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9780471691570 (ISBN)
Emanuel Derman is a principal and Head of Risk at Prisma Capital Partners and a professor and Director of the Program in Financial Engineering at Columbia University. He was formerly a managing director at Goldman, Sachs & Co., which he joined in 1985 after an initial career in academic life and at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is the co-creator of the widely used Black-Derman-Toy interest rate model and the Derman_Kani local volatility model. Among his many awards and honors, he was named the SunGard/IAFE Financial Engineer of the Year in 2000 and was appointed to the Risk Hall of Fame in 2002. He has a PhD in theoretical physics from Columbia University and is the author of numerous articles in elementary particle physics, computer science, and finance.
Prologue The Two Cultures 1
Chapter 1 Elective Affinities 17
Chapter 2 Dog Years 29
Chapter 3 a Sort of Life 53
Chapter 4 A Sentimental Education 65
Chapter 5 the Mandarins 77
Chapter 6 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds 85
Chapter 7 in the Penal Colony 95
Chapter 8 Stop-time 117
Chapter 9 Transformer 129
Chapter 10 Easy Travel to other Planets 143
Chapter 11 Force of Circumstance 175
Chapter 12 a Severed Head 191
Chapter 13 Civilization and Its Discontents 203
Chapter 14 Laughter in the Dark 225
Chapter 15 The Snows of Yesteryear 251
Chapter 16 the Great Pretender 265
Acknowledgments 271
About the Author 272
Index 273
"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 their new financial science to the world of
business and forever changed it and, especially, his descriptions
of the late and extraordinary genius Fischer Black who became his
mentor, reveal a surprising humanity where it might be least
expected. Who should read this book? Anyone with a serious interest
in finance and everyone who simply wants to enjoy a good
read."-Stephen Ross, Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance
and Economics, Sloan School, MIT
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.9.2004 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung | |
| Schlagworte | Finance & Investments • Finanz- u. Anlagewesen • Finanzwesen • Physik |
| ISBN-13 | 9780471691570 / 9780471691570 |
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