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A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market
A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market
Author: John Allen Paulos
From America's liveliest writer on mathematics, a witty and insightful book on the stock market and the irrepressibility of our dreams of wealth. In A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market best-selling author John Allen Paulos demonstrates what the tools of mathematics can tell us about the vagaries of the stock market. Employing his trade...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465054817
ISBN-10: 0465054811
Publication Date: 5/2004
Pages: 216
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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I am a big fan of John Allen Paulos: he makes math easy to understand, and has an entertaining writing style.

Because of the publication date, some of the examples in this book (WorldComm) are dated, but the basic principles still apply.


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