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A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
Author: John Allen Paulos
From America's wittiest writer on mathematics, a lively and insightful book on the workings of stock markets and the basic irrationality of our dreams of wealth. Can a renowned mathematician successfully outwit the stock market? Not when his biggest investment is WorldCom. In A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market, best-selling author ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465054800
ISBN-10: 0465054803
Publication Date: 5/2003
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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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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