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INTRO QUANT BOOKS:

A Primer For The Mathematics Of Financial Engineering

Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets

Derivatives

SOFT SKILLS:

The Age of Turbulence

Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

The Wealth of Nations

QUANT LIFE:

The Problem with HFT

Business Cycles and Equilibrium

Models Behaving Badly

My Life as a Quant

Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance

QUANT TECHNICAL:

Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach

Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences

Probability and Statistical Inference

Statistical Analysis of Financial Data in R

Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach

Stochastic Calculus for Finance I: The Binomial Asset Pricing Model

Stochastic Calculus for Finance II: Continuous-Time Models

Arbitrage Theory in Continuous Time

Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives

Mathematics for Economics

Time Series Analysis

PROGRAMMING & DATA SCIENCE:

The Art of R Programming

Mastering Python

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Second Edition

FINANCE & BUSINESS:

Introduction to Managerial Accounting

Fundamentals of Corporate Finance

Essentials of Investing

The VaR Modeling Handbook

Financial Modeling

Security Analysis