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
Recommend the Oscar nominated short movie “two strangers exchanging saliva” you can find on YouTube.
About the human desperate need for intimacy at any cost. Encapsulated in a 30 min movie.
This flawed sentence always bothers me. I think what they mean is “sparking the flame of genius in every child”
The school shouldn’t make a mistake like that
Thankfully we have created these magic robots to spare you the burden of thinking, writing, making music and art—leaving you to your true passions such as dishwashing, trash disposal, and diaper-changing which we are unfortunately unable to automate at this time
We are only free in respect to objects which we *moderately* desire.
-- Spinoza, The Ethics