They Tried to Outsmart Wall Street - NYTimes.com

They Tried to Outsmart Wall Street - NYTimes.com: "They are known as “quants” because they do quantitative finance. Seduced by a vision of mathematical elegance underlying some of the messiest of human activities, they apply skills they once hoped to use to untangle string theory or the nervous system to making money."* "As Dr. Derman put it in his book “My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics