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Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by minhazm423 »

cm2187 wrote: post #84
jonathanpoulter wrote: post #18

Options, Futures and Other Derivatives is basically a Bible. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/013447208X/ref=dp_ob_neva_mob...

It is true that it is, but I always thought it was underserved. It’s not particularly clear or insightful and it is very academic. On interest rates and yield curves, a book I would recommend is Sadr’s Interest Rates Swaps and their Derivatives [1]. Unfortunately it is a bit dated and a lot happened since it was written. But it is a very good book to understand interest rate models, which focuses more on the intuitio…

What did you study? How did you apply the knowledge in the book?

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by minhazm423 »

peller wrote: post #75
jonathanpoulter wrote: post #18

Options, Futures and Other Derivatives is basically a Bible. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/013447208X/ref=dp_ob_neva_mob...

Related, Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners by Larry Harris is also excellent. https://www.amazon.com/Trading-Exchanges-Market-Microstructu... These aren't really textbooks, but regardless, the Market Wizards series by Jack Schwagger is highly recommended: https://www.amazon.com/Market-Wizards-Updated-Interviews-Tra... https://www.amazon.com/New-Market-Wizards-Conversations-Amer... https:/…

Are you a trader?

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by minhazm423 »

pbhowmic wrote: post #33
jonathanpoulter wrote: post #18

Options, Futures and Other Derivatives is basically a Bible. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/013447208X/ref=dp_ob_neva_mob...

Funny, this book was considered not mathematically rigorous enough in my program but I agree, it is a bad idea to not be familiar with this book because the lingo the book uses (for example, sticky delta) is widely used in trading desks and one cannot afford to be unaware. For my program, Shreve's Stochastic Calculus for Finance (I & II) are the old & new testaments

What would one need to fully understand before tackling these books? What field would these books help them understand and apply this knowledge in?

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by minhazm423 »

akjssdk wrote: post #80
formalsystem wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very curious to see a book on food show up here. What did you like about the book and did it change the way you think about food or life?

McGee has a very methodical way of discussing food. It is basically like a scientific textbook in that regard, with deeper dives into almost every topic. It is also incredibly information dense, which makes it a truly a 'bible' in my opinion. And for what it is worth, many other of the more methodical chefs on the internet think so too.

>many other of the more methodical chefs

such as? is there a community for this?

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by cm2187 »

minhazm423 wrote: post #91
cm2187 wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is true that it is, but I always thought it was underserved. It’s not particularly clear or insightful and it is very academic. On interest rates and yield curves, a book I would recommend is Sadr’s Interest Rates Swaps and their Derivatives [1]. Unfortunately it is a bit dated and a lot happened since it was written. But it is a very good book to understand interest rate models, which focuses more on the intuitio…

What did you study? How did you apply the knowledge in the book?

I studied engineering, applied maths and finance. I structured interest rate derivatives for a while. That’s the book I recommend to new joiners, even those without a stem background.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by mjfl »

HaoZeke wrote: post #62

As a chemical engineer (many of these go beyond the undergraduate level): 1) The principles of chemical equilibrium, by Kenneth George Denbigh 2) Mass Transfer by Sherwood 3) Process Dynamics, Modeling, and Control by Babatunde Ogunnaike and W. Harmon Ray 4) Chemical Process Industries by Shreeves 5) An Introduction to Numerical Methods and Analysis by James F. Epperson 6) Optimization: Theory and Practice by Gordon…

on the subject, would love a tutorial introduction to total synthesis...

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by laichzeit0 »

dplarson wrote: post #39

For numerical optimization, a couple good textbooks are: - "Practical Optimization" by P. E. Gill, W. Murray and M. H. Wright: a little old (1982), but provides a solid foundation - "Convex Optimization" by S. Boyd and L. Vandenberghe: the standard for learning convex optimization (also available as a free PDF from the author's website) - "Convex Analysis and Monotone Operator Theory in Hilbert Spaces" by H. H. Bausc…

What would you recommend for multi-objective non-convex optimization?

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by rhizome31 »

RandomSort wrote: post #70

In Continuous Delivery and DevOps: Lean software Development - Mary & Tom Poppendieck The DevOps Handbook - Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois Accelerate - Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim Continuous Integration - Paul M. Duvall, Andrew Glover, Steve Matyas Continuous Delivery - Jez Humble, David Farley

Do you think the DevOps Handbook would be useful for a working programmer in a small startup without any sysadmin? By reading the descriptions I was under the impression that it's very high level and more geared towards big organizations.
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