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
Norman Mailer on ambition
https://emanuelderman.com/norman-mailer-on-ambition/
Looking through and cleaning up old notes etc
"Scruton: I am I to myself only because, and to the extent that, I am You to another. Every I requires a You, and the two subjects meet in the world of objects."
The Immortals via @nybooks
Scarily excellent!
The Immortals | D. Nurkse
When I was old I became close to my death. He slept next to me snoring like a freight train, his bony elbo...
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@EmanuelDerman 💯. If the music is too evocative it will distract us. Philipp Glass works. Some of Hans Zimmer can work too, for example the Inception soundtrack