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
According to a fragment first published in 1959 by Helmut Sembdner, Heinrich von Kleist proposed dividing humanity into two classes: “(1) those who are adept at metaphor, and (2) those who are adept at formula.” Those capable of both were too few to constitute a class to Kleist.
“Le Grand Meaulnes inspired the title of The Great Gatsby.[2] Despite this similarity, French translators of Fitzgerald's novel struggled in the same way to render the word "great" and chose Gatsby le magnifique(literally Gatsby the Magnificent).”
Le Grand Meaulnes - Wikipedia
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“Le Grand Meaulnes is referenced multiple times in Simone de Beauvoir’s Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (where I first read about it)
It is the only book that Sal Paradise carries with him on his travels in Jack Kerouac's On the Road. “- Wikipedia
I know people who love this book, read it when they were young
Very much enjoying rereading this book about boyhood, hustling, confidence, and success by my late friend Michael Goodkin, who founded the financial software firm Numerix
The Wrong Answer Faster: The Inside Story of Making the Machine That Trades Trillions
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Oh my, there are people playing backgammon in the lobby of my building, I have never seen that. It was Goodkin's favorite game in London. Very classy!
… the emotions are generally excessive, and so fix the
mind in the contemplation of one object, that it is
unable to think of others.
Spinoza, The Ethics