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
The new pizza store in my neighborhood is so busy you need TSA pre to get a slice
from @lionel_trolling
Poor rabble say “society has failed me, its claims on me are void!” Rich rabble say“my success is mine alone, society has no claim on it!” Both variations on a pithy Scorsese précis of gangster ideology: “fuck you, pay me.” So the gangster chieftain Trump
I read it only once since I was a late teenager but I'm going to read Brave New World again. It was really good. Maybe sex hasn't quite become the way he figured it would in the 1930s, tho for a while it looked like it was going that way, but reproduction, certainly headed there
It’s not that they cant conceive or that they’re too ill to carry a baby. They just want the damage to be on somebody else’s body. I suppose you could argue that’s what happens when other people do your manual labor too, but this is one step farther.