A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
Publisher: Basic Books
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-05
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0465054803
ISBN-13: 9780465054800
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 John Allen Paulos employs his trademark stories, vignettes, paradoxes, and puzzles to address every thinking reader’s curiosity about the market--Is it efficient? Is it random? Is there anything to technical analysis, fundamental analysis, and other supposedly time-tested methods of picking stocks? How can one quantify risk? What are the most common scams? Are there any approaches to investing that truly outperform t...