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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Oddlots podcast. I'm Joe Wisenthal, managing editor at Bloomberg Markets.

And I'm Tracy Allaway, executive editor at Bloomberg Markets.

So Tracy, you know what's something really fun about having a podcast?

Okay. Tell me. What?

That I can read a book or read an article and then two days later say hey we should

have the author of that in that article or book on to discuss that and we can do that i think that's

a really cool thing is this podcast going to become like joe's book club yeah it's basically

going to be yeah basically it's going to be

just here's what Joe read the week before and wants to talk more about. Okay. No, but I, I read, well, I can live with that. Yeah, no, it won't be that bad. I read good stuff. But, um, uh, so I recently had the chance to read the book, uh, My Life is a Quant by Emmanuel Derman, who was a physicist, a theoretical physicist, who eventually

joined Wall Street during the quantitative revolution and sort of was at all, you know, all

these sort of, there's so much talk about the equations and models that run finance these

days. Sure. And he was at the ground floor of how that all got built up.

Oh, well, that's exciting.

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