My Life as a Quant Reflections on Physics and Finance [Paperback]

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.Prologue: The Two Cultures.

Chapter 1: Elective Affinities.

Chapter 2: Dog Years.

Chapter 3: A Sort of Life.

Chapter 4: A Sentimental Education.

Chapter 5: The Mandarins.

Chapter 6: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds.

Chapter 7: In the Penal Colony.

Chapter 8: Stop-Time.

Chapter 9: Transformer.

Chapter 10: Easy Travel to Other Planets.

Chapter 11: Force of Circumstance.

Chapter 12: A Severed Head.

Chapter 13: Civilization and Its Discontents.

Chapter 14: Laugher in the Dark.

Chapter 15: The Snows of Yesteryear.

Chapter 16: The Great Pretender.

Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

Index.

There are few gentlemen bankers left these days. Nor is there much room in the great financial houses for anything that smacks of the amateur spirit. That is why Emanuel Derman's memoirs are so compelling…Derman's wry humour and sense of irony are apparent throughout the book. - Financial Times

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