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
He quotes the political scientist Adolph Reed Jr's quip that "the real project of Woke was to diversify the ruling class."
— from an article in @nybooks about David Rieff’s new book Desire and Fate
Do we still have soft power now?
https://emanuelderman.com/the-soft-power-of-nickels-and-dimes/
Author’s copies of the second edition of our “Analysis with Mathematica” have arrived. There is one brand new chapter on using Chat GPT for undergrad analysis and Mathematica coding - hence the weird new cover.
“All human consciousness is false consciousness, a pathological refusal to see things as they really are.
When we encounter a work of art desire drops away & we are able for a moment to see a piece of the world as it really is. Art is a therapy for egoism
Terry Eagleton · Pregnant with Monsters: Schopenhauer makes a stir
Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand tragedy...
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