A Mathematician Plays The Market

Author: John Allen Paulos

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Price : 24.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780141012032
Publisher : pengui
Imprint : pengui
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Weight (g) : 0.174
Publication date : 24 June 2004
Dimensions : 200mm X 128mm X 15mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : John Allen Paulos
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Pages : 224
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Can a renowned mathematician successfully outwit the stock market? Not when his biggest investment is WorldCom. The book tells the fascinating, funny and often excruciating story of how John Allen Paulos gambled - and lost - in his calamitous attempts to make a fortune on the stock market. Throughout his adventures in the marketplace, Paulos manages to shed light on its paradoxes and puzzles: How random is it? How do you assess risk? This tale of greed, business gurus and gullible punters is for anyone fascinated by how the market works - and how it can go horribly wrong.

Reviews

"'John Allen Paulos is the maths teacher I found twenty-five years too late' Sean French, Independent"