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
@GrantsPub on 80s LBO corporate raiders:
‘As the late Michael Harkins put it, the very people who were most adamant about excluding depreciation from corporate cash flows "were the ones who were divorcing their aging first wives."’
Hilaire Belloc, "Tarantella" https://writing.upenn.edu/library/Belloc-Hilaire_Tarantella.html
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian.
Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.
This is devastatingly well put by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian. It leaves nowhere to go for the antisemites:
“Every minority faces discrimination – note Tory frontbencher Nick Timothy’s appalling attack on Muslim prayer this week – but next to no other diaspora community