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 A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
From America's wittiest writer on mathematics, a lively and insightful book on the workings of stock markets and the basic irrationality of our dreams of wealth.
Can a renowned mathematician successfully outwit the stock market? Not when his biggest investment is WorldCom.
In A Mathematician Plays the Stock... |  |  |  |  Finance: A Fine Art"Like a true Master in Fine Arts, Michel Fleuriet is able to combine a great historical culture with a deep technical background to give us a brilliant and synthetic view of the fundamentals driving financial markets. This book should be a reference in a troubled period where everyone, from the non professional investor to the sophisticated... |
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