"In a thirsty world filled with hydrogen and oxygen," Mr Derman has written, "someone had finally worked out how to synthesise H2O."

德尔曼写道：“在一个充满了氢与氧的干渴世界，终于有人发现了合成水分子(H2O)的方法。”

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For while investment bank salesmen might have treated his creations as near infallible, in truth Derman - like many brilliant scientists-turned-quants - has always recognised their flaws.

尽管投行的销售人员也许认为他的作品近乎完美，但实际上，与许多由科学家转型的杰出宽客一样，德曼始终认识到其中存在缺陷。

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Derman rests much of his current world view on the writings of philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Baruch Spinoza.

FORBES: A Review of Emanuel Derman's New Book: Models.Behaving.Badly.

The book starts by explaining the tragic social construct that Derman lived with as a child: apartheid in South Africa.

FORBES: A Review of Emanuel Derman's New Book: Models.Behaving.Badly.

Bringing ethics into his analysis, Mr. Derman has no patience for coddling the folly of individuals and institutions who over-rely on faulty models and then seek to escape the consequences.

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