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 ...
Now, after seventeen years on Wall Street, this sounds comfortably late; it seemed remarkably early then. I woke up around 7 A.M., if Josh hadn’t woken me earlier. I ate breakfast, skimmed the New York Times, took my car out of the garage beneath our Rockefeller University apartment building, dro...