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Making Sense of the Numbers in the Headlines

A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

Innumeracy

A Mathematician Plays the Market

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Paulos offers a hillarious account of how the stock market both follows and defies mathematical principals. He offers an enagaing overview of everything from &quot;betas&quot; to the efficient market hypothesis.

From America's wittiest writer on mathematics, a lively and insightful guide to understanding and predicting the stock market

John Allen Paulos is Professor of Mathematics at Temple University and Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Columbia University. He is also an author and public speaker. His writings include Innumeracy and A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper. 
 
'John Allen Paulos is the maths teacher I found twenty-five years too late' Sean French, Independent

A Mathematician Plays the Market

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