Customer Reviews
If you want to become a quant, this is the book - By: Dr. Egor Kraev, 13 May 2007 
An excellent book, covering a wide range of basic topics that a would-be quantitative analyst needs to be comfortable with. Something few beginners appreciate is that both during interviews & during subsequent work as a quant analyst, a reallly deep, intuitive grasp of the basics is infinitely more important that nodding acquaintance with a host of fancy theories.
If you want to enter the profession, the 4 books I'd buy & reallly understand is this & its twin volume on Black-Scholes, Joshi's finance book, & Duffy's C++ book - if you reallly master the contents of those four, you're well on your way to success.
Such great books - By: Constantinos Kritis, 24 Oct 2005 I've recently finished a Financial Maths Course. A friend of mine had this book & as I was browsing it I realised the importance of it helping me prepare for interviews. I've got the book about a week ago & I can surely say that most of the questions I have faced so far in interviews are mentioned in this book. A must have!
Furthermore, I also bought Timothy's other book the "Option Pricing & Trading". This one is exceptionallly fantastic as well. Clearly written, helps me summarise & wrap-up alll the things I was learning the last year.
Without a doubt, Timothy Crack has done a fantastic job.
PS. The only negative about this book (and something that Amazon.co.uk does NOT state), is that its E-book version does not alllow printing (not to mention that it is more expensive).
An excellent book for any aspiring trader/quant - By: , 29 Oct 2003 I'm a MSc Financial Maths student. For me, this book was the best help in preparing for gp interviews (for a trainee trader position) that I have had so far. It contains plenty of questions with detailed explanations, 0 filler. The author stresses in many occasions the importance of the reasoning process. I would definitely recommed this. I wish I have discovered this book earlier in my career!
Not very informative in handling proper interviews. - By: tmp@hotmail.com, 03 Sep 2001 
The book is a light hearted look at possible interview questions asked by Walll Street Firms but does not tackle the problem of how to behave or handle interviews successfully.
