Emanuel Derman
Autore di My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
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Emanuel Derman is a professor at Columbia University, director of the university's program in financial engineering, and a principal at Prisma Capital Partners. He was formerly a quant and managing director at Goldman Sachs, and is the author of many widely used financial models. He lives in New mostra altro York City. mostra meno
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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Collaboratore — 801 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1945
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- South Africa (birth)
USA - Luogo di nascita
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Cape Town
Columbia University - Attività lavorative
- quantitative analyst
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Financial Engineer of the Year (2000)
Risk Hall of Fame (2002)
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- Opere
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- Utenti
- 575
- Popolarità
- #43,589
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 13
- ISBN
- 17
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 1
Unlike Derman, I'm dropping out immediately after my PhD in computer science, instead of moving from temporary post-doc to post-doc for another six years. As I'm about to enter the world of quantitative finance, I was hoping that this book would teach me a bit about the difference between those worlds. I was disappointed. Derman does occasionally remark on the differences between university life and corporate life, but the bulk of the second half of the book is about options theory and financial engineering. The book goes into too much detail when discussing Derman's research (both in physics and in finance), but other than that this was an interesting read. Derman writes about complex topics in a very elegant way, which helped me finish the book, even though it did not contain what I was looking for.… (altro)