Emanuel Derman is a prominent figure in the fields of finance and quantitative modeling. He is best known for his contributions to financial engineering and for his work on options pricing models. Derman is often associated with the development of the Black-Derman-Toy model, which is an interest rate model used in the pricing of options and other financial derivatives. In addition to his work in finance, Derman has a background in physics, having earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Columbia University.
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