<r>QuoteOriginally posted by: ppauper>> How marketable is a German PhD degree?try ebayindeed, highly recommended. try <URL url="http://www.ebay.com">www.ebay.com</URL> for NY or <URL url="http://www.ebay.co.uk">www.ebay.co.uk</URL> for London, but not <URL url="http://www.ebay.de">www.ebay.de</URL> ...

Yes, it does. I once got a job offer from UBS after replying to their job ads in Financial News.

QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuoteOriginally posted by: ppauperQuoteOriginally posted by: bismarx sorryapology acceptedSeconded, case closed wait a second. the case is not closed until we know what bismarx was sorry for.

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnThere a smiley in the text.Not sure how to process your response to yomi (I have just ordered the book)...Sorry, I guess I did not quite make myself clear. Let me repeat again:"Now, yomi, please tell us how AWFUL that book is."Since you have ordered that book....

<r>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnAnyone know this book?AGEOne thing for sure; it's awful expensive.The man is so "GOOD" that there is a journal called "Int. J. Comput. Math" which is almost entirely dedicated to the publication of his papers. Check out <URL url="http://www.informatik.uni-trie...

<t>Stable or not, your new scheme does not solve the PDE you aimed at. It actually solves the same type of equation but with a different coefficient a (I will leave it to you to figure it out). blade was absolutely right in pointing to the consistency issue in one of his/her reply. On the other hand...

<t>There are probably a few threads in Wilmott on London's "Modeling Derivatives in C++". However, those all seem to be serious discussions. So I hope you will forgive me for starting a new one discussing the bits and pieces in that book that can make you laugh (as they say laughter is the best medi...

<t>QuoteDoesn't he realise that I have kids to feed, and that their nanny is unhappy with the quality of the sound system in two of our cars ?No kidding. I thought Mrs DCFC, the expensive lawyer, was making so much money that you could afford to give up your day time job to become a "pimp".Quote thr...

to my dismay, Pele tipped England to win the cup. I am beginning to suspect that Pele did this on purpose, because the county he tipped to win would end up lossing. On the other hand, he may be right for just once with his predication on the world cup

<r>The paperYunkang Liu and Peter Jäckel: Options On Credit Default Index Swapspublished in Wilmott magazine last year may be revelant to your question. By the way, FinCAD had the model described in that paper built into FinCAD XL system (<URL url="http://www.fincad.com/default.asp?id=20700&s=Pr...

They do have a couple of associates. I know that because they, not Millar himself, keep sending me CVs without even bother to ask whether I am hiring or not.mayl

Strange things do happen. Rumor has it that some pretty Goldman Sachs PR girls were handing out free cashes boundled with job application forms to passer-bys the other day.

US on the one hand killed handred of thousand of innocent Japanese people with atomic bombs, but on the other hand allowed the number one war criminal Hirohito, the emperor of Japan, live happily after WWII. There is no justice in the world.

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: quantstudent19it depends on the banksplaces likes gs and jp indeed recruit most of their quants from polytechnique + dea p6same is true of course for bnp and sg which usually extend their recruitment to centrale, mines, ponts, ensae combined with dea p6 or P7in other pl...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: lytesaberJudging from my trading floor all the best quants/traders seem to be from some place called polytechnique in France. Really? Which floor is it?Among the three non-French banks I worked for, I have not met a single French trader. The few French quants I know of ...