From America''s liveliest writer on mathematics, a witty and
insightful book on the stock market and the irrepressibility of our
dreams of wealth. In A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
best-selling author John Allen Paulos demonstrates what the tools
of mathematics can tell us about the vagaries of the stock market.
Employing his trademark stories, vignettes, paradoxes, and puzzles
and even a film treatment, Paulos addresses every thinking
reader''s curiosity about the market: Is it efficient? Is it
rational? 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?
What light do fractals, network theory, and common psychological
foibles shed on investor behavior? Are there any approaches to
investing that truly outperform the major indexes? Can a deeper
knowledge of mathematics help beat the odds? All of these questions
are explored with the engaging erudition that made Paulos''s A
Mathematician Reads the Newspaper and Innumeracy favorites with
both armchair mathematicians and readers who want to think like
them. Paulos also shares the cautionary tale of his own long and
disastrous love affair with WorldCom. In the tradition of Burton
Malkiel''s A Random Walk Down Wall Street and Jeremy Siegel''s Stocks
for the Long Run, this wry and illuminating book is for anyone,
investor or not, who follows the markets-or knows someone who
does.
關於作者：
John Allen Paulos''s previous books include Innumeracy, Beyond
Numeracy, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, and Once Upon a
Number. He is a Professor of Mathematics at Temple University, a
columnist on ABCNews.com, a member of the editorial board of the
Philadelphia Daily News, and a frequent commentator on the
intersection of mathematics, psychology, and everyday life. He
lives in Philadelphia.
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