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“Brief Hours and Weeks awakes many memories of Cape Town, the city of Emanuel Derman’s youth and mine, as it was half a century ago.…
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Comments closedIntroduction to the Japanese Edition of My Life as a Quant” I first visited Tokyo in 1990, when I worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co.…
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