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Interesting buy poorly written, organized
Interesting buy poorly written, organized collection of first person narratives from many of the leaders in the quant revolution. Some of the story telling was kind of boring and pointless but there w Read more...
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"This book gives 24 chapters of stories from different people. These quants are learned and respectable guys: many of them have PhD's from top business schools. Some of them stumbled upon the world of Finance quite by chance and others wanted to be there from when they were in nappies. I struggled Read more...
This book tries to do for Quants what Market Wizards did for traders, the big flaw is that traders are interesting and quants are... well just quants. If you want to be a quant this might give you some useful insights, but if you don't then you're better off to skip it.
Interesting buy poorly written, organized collection of first person narratives from many of the leaders in the quant revolution. Some of the story telling was kind of boring and pointless but there were some really good stories scattered around. Gives you a better understaning of the how Wall Stre Read more...
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