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
When I eagerly describe movie or books I liked to other people, it’s not because I want to persuade them to watch the movie. I describe them not because I want them to watch it, but because I want to communicate my pleasure. It’s arguably a selfish act, not a charitable one.
That said, I was moved Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, about wanting to forget someone one loved, and The Science of Sleep, more about the fantasies involved in being in love and being unable to distinguish them from reality. It has some really funny scenes.
"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd."
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️
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