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A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market

By John Allen Paulos

Book information

Publisher
Basic Books
Year
2003
ISBN
9781567318289, 0465054803
LCC
HG4515.15 .P38 2003
Open Library ID
OL24753466M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9720831 bytes)
Pages
226\226
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

This book is boring, dull, and useless. Frankly I'm surprised that any reviews discuss the writers' sense of humor as "witty"; "feeble" is more apt. He dazzles the reader with plenty of mathematical theories on game theory and such, and with various academic theories on stock prices, but ultimately his long term holding of a stock that was declining, Worldcom, shows his lack of understanding of the simplest rule for not losing money --- don't marry a stock. He has nothing valuable to say about stocks, no new insight, nothing that has not been said before. Don't marry this book.

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