Writer and Professor Emeritus of Financial Engineering at Columbia University
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Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian
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Models Behaving Badly
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The Volatility Smile
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My Life as a Quant
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Why Is This Interesting? – The Tetragrammaton Edition
A single name–Bjork or Madonna–is grand. A single name with its own name is even grander.
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The Immortals via @nybooks
Scarily excellent!
The Immortals | D. Nurkse
When I was old I became close to my death. He slept next to me snoring like a freight train, his bony elbo...
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@EmanuelDerman 💯. If the music is too evocative it will distract us. Philipp Glass works. Some of Hans Zimmer can work too, for example the Inception soundtrack
I cannot run or exercise to podcasts or music. Huge distraction. BUT ... today I discovered that Phillip Glass' Glass Pieces is just perfect for that.
It's something about the almost periodicity and yet variation and yet no meaning to inflict on you or make you think. The Ballet by Jerome Robbins to it is fantastic too, can watch it forever
A slightly late Manhattanhenge
