Writer and Professor Emeritus of Financial Engineering at Columbia University
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Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian
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Models Behaving Badly
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The Volatility Smile
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My Life as a Quant
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Why Is This Interesting? – The Tetragrammaton Edition
A single name–Bjork or Madonna–is grand. A single name with its own name is even grander.
Emanuel Derman on X
Two long Hemingway sentences in “a movable feast” with no commas. I don’t like commas much either but this is gutsy.
I suppose in a way I’m doing what the Soviets called internal emigration. I scan the headlines, and then my pleasures are reading, writing, drawing, watching a few things, and talking to sensible people who understand metaphor.
I do like to go to live movies and life performances. I went to see Danish national ballet last night.
read the news today, oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, I just had to laugh
mene mene tekel upharsin
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