"A deep and elegant exploration by a thinker who moved from the hardest of all sciences (physics) to the softest of the soft (finance). Derman is a different class of thinker... I know of no other book that bridges the two cultures."
Nassim Taleb
author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness
"Derman's memoir of his transition from mathematical physicist to expert finance whiz at Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers reads like a novel, but tells a lot about brains applied to making money grow.."
Paul A. Samuelson
MIT, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, 1970
"My Life as a Quant, by Emanuel Derman is, indeed, a perfect memoir, as Derman, a South African?born physicist turned financial engineer, is a perfect memoirist."
Grant's Interest Rate Observer
"That sense of being an intruder in outlaw territory lends an intriguing mood to Derman's My Life as a Quant, a literate and entertaining memoir."
Business Week
