best memoirs/autobiographies by female quants?

[Colin Rowat]

Can anyone recommend a good memoir or autobiography by a female quant?

(The question comes to mind reading Derman's My life as a quant.)

Failing that, I'm willing to fall back to a good biography of a female quant.

I'm happy for recommendations in any language.

Thanks,

Colin
G-Research; and University of Birmingham

 

[binomial-torrent]

look into leda braga

 

[Colin Rowat]

look into leda braga

Thanks; I've looked for books by Braga, el Karoui and Carol Alexander, but haven't found anything like a memoir/autobiography yet.

 

[binomial-torrent]

don’t think any exist but you’re free to write it. i’d assume it’s the same story every time: i’m smart, i got into the business at the right time, i worked hard, etc

 

[Daniel Duffy]

I suppose the first female "quant" was Ada Lovelace.

 

[Colin Rowat]

I suppose the first female "quant" was Ada Lovelace.

Nice - and some of her letters have been published, which might constitute memoir or autobiography: shorturl.at/dq456

A conjecture: the book I'm looking for (ruling out Lovelace by looking for a contemporary quant) is in Chinese or Vietnamese.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

There are many good female quants but are you looking for those in the 'limelight' as it were?

The ambiguity here is there is no agreed definition of what "quant". Each has her own internal model. On thing is sure: quant these days is all about progarmming. And Quantnet/Baruch has an impressive alumni community in this regard.

 

[Colin Rowat]

There are many good female quants but are you looking for those in the 'limelight' as it were?

At this point, I'm just looking for any memoir or autobiography by a female quant. (Goal: I'd like to be able to recommend memoirs as well as textbooks to people thinking of becoming quants.) A good memoir by a well-known female quant would be ideal.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

BTW, Colin, Welcome to Quantnet!