How does a book offering interviews with 25 leading quants sound? If you think "quant" means financial engineer, you'll be disappointed. Except for Peter Jackel, none of this book's 25 interviewees is a financial engineer working on a trading floor. Another meaning of "quant" is quantitative trading—that is, technical analysis for hedge funds. Most of the interviewees seem to do that. The rest mostly work in a management or marketing capacity for data vendors, software houses or consultancies. Accordingly, the book falls short of the title's promise ...