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by: Emanuel Derman List Price: $16.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.53 You Save: $5.42 (32%) as of 07/30/2010 07:41 EDT Used Price: $7.50 Third Party New Price: $9.20 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 920 EAN: 9780470192733 ISBN: 0470192739 Label: Wiley Manufacturer: Wiley Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 292 Publication Date: December 21, 2007 Publisher: Wiley Studio: Wiley Features: ISBN13: 9780470192733 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Related Items: How I Became a Quant: Insights from 25 of Wall Street's Elite The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It Starting Your Career as a Wall Street Quant: A Practical, No-BS Guide to Getting a Job in Quantitative Finance and Launching a Lucrative Career Inside the Black Box: The Simple Truth About Quantitative Trading (Wiley Finance) Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance see more Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: In My Life as a Quant, Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high-energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. Page by page, Derman details his adventures in this field—analyzing the incompatible personas of traders and quants, and discussing the dissimilar nature of knowledge in physics and finance. Throughout this tale, he also reflects on the appropriate way to apply the refined methods of physics to the hurly-burly world of markets. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - When physicists invent things, stand back It is unusual for an ordinary scientist - by that I mean one of the number of working professionals capable of contributing research to major journals but perhaps not winning the Nobel Prize - to write an autobiography. I appreciated Derman for putting down his life story because it has considerable resonance with my own. We were both trained in elementary particle physics and quantum field theory at top universities during the same years, and, due to the Ballet Dancer effect, both of us later had ... Read More Rating: - A very interesting account of an early career in Quant Finance I think anyone working in (quantitative) finance will get something out of this book. It is unique and there won't be another one like it (impact/success wise), because of how much the world of quant finance has changed over the past 10-15 years. It is written by one of the best authors in both the world of fixed income and the world of equities. The book is Derman's autobiography which can be divided into three parts: academia, Bell Labs, Wall Street. The first part occupies about half ... Read More Rating: - Nice book, I wish they were less complicated details or more explanations. I read that book because I am a Ph.D. student and I hesitate between an academic life or going to work for a company. I found the book interesting as the author has been in both worlds, and talks about the good and the bad in each, how his life was, what were his difficulties but what he enjoyed as well. What I didn't like so much is that the author gives a lot of details about his research in both worlds, and he does not give enough material to understand his results in physics and ... Read More Rating: - Subtitle is more accurate: Physics and Finance This is an autobiography of a theoretical physicist who made the transition to Wall Street financial modeler. The first half describes Derman's life as an aspiring theoretical physicist in academia and industry - and may be interesting to anyone who is considering a similar career choice. In the second half, he describes what Wall Street was like when he joined it many years ago - how it evolved - the cultures of various firms - and gives a high level overview of how quantitative modeling is done and ... Read More Rating: - Good Book This book was interesting to anyone interested in finance, economics, mathematics, physics or the interesection of these fields. My only complaint is that it began to drag near the end. It is an interesting auto-biography. Its worth reading if you are considering a career in finance. see more