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A Mathematician Plays the Market by John Allen Paulos
Category: Business Finance Management
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 hi ...Show more
A Mathematician Plays the Market by John Allen Paulos
Category: Business Finance Management | Series: Allen Lane Science S.
In early 2000 John Allen Paulos, celebrated thinker and writer on mathematics, set out to use his insights into areas such as statistics, probability and psychology to examine the maths of the marketplace. However, he soon discovered that playing the market was far more addictive than he had anticipated ...Show more
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos
Category: Science | Series: Penguin science
From crime figures to health scares, election polls to stock market forecasts, numbers make the news all the time. But are they accurate? John Allen Paulos, travels through the pages of an average newspaper, revealing how mathematics is at the heart of the articles we read everyday - even horoscopes and ...Show more
A Numerate Life: A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours by John Allen Paulos
Category: Science & Natural History
Employing intuitive ideas from mathematics, this quirky "meta-memoir" raises questions about our lives that most of us don't think to ask, but arguably should: What part of memory is reliable fact, what part creative embellishment? Which favorite presuppositions are unfounded, which statistically biased ...Show more
I Think, Therefore I Laugh by John Allen Paulos
Category: Humour
Wittgenstein once remarked that 'a serious and good philosophical work could be written that consisted entirely of jokes'. Inspired by this idea, this work shows how conceptual humour and analytic philosophy resonate at a very deep level. It is filled with jokes, stories, parables, puzzles, and anecdote ...Show more
Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos
Category: Science
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Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up by John Allen Paulos
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Are there any logical reasons to believe in God? The mathematician and bestselling author John Allen Paulos thinks not. In "Irreligion" he presents the case for his own world view, organizing his book into twelve chapters that refute the twelve arguments most often put forward for believing in God's exi ...Show more
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