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Not new and not derogatory: https://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Quant-Reflections-Physics/dp/0470192739 https://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Quant-Reflections-Physics/dp/.

• melling 10y ago
  And it's not a term new to HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=quant%20&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=pastYear&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=quant%20&sort=byPopularity&pre... Why do people play TIL on HN?
• ryanmonroe 10y ago
  In the book he notes that it started out as a derogatory term. Can't find the quote in the book but I found this http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/magazine/16FOB-OnLanguage-t.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/magazine/16FOB-OnLanguage-... "When I asked Derman recently about his early years in finance, he said that at first he felt that quant, like rocket scientist before it, was largely a derogatory put-down for the brainy newcomers, many of them foreign-born: 'two-thirds pejorative, one-third grudging praise,' by his calculation."