My Life as a Quant : Reflections on Physics and Finance

from dvf1976

I enjoyed the biography aspect of the book and I really enjoyed the parts about programming under Unix/C. The financial parts, though, left me pretty lost. A glossary with some brief financial definitions of 'zero-coupon', 'put', 'strike', 'option', and others would have been helpful.

from gq2000

For a quant, Derman certainly knows how to put complicated ideas and abstract concepts in simple words, and he has a agreat sense of humor that makes his life stories much more fun to read.

from breic2

A memoir describing Derman's career. After postgraduate work in physics, he transitioned to finance, and spent seventeen years as a "quant" at Goldman Sachs.

from name99

Pretty much what you would expect, including the discussion of how badly academic physicists are treated. Unfortunately not nearly as technical regarding either finance math or how physics idea (eg gauge theory or path integrals) are used thereby as I had hoped for.