by John Allen Paulos · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483109700
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In 'A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market', John Allen Paulos shares his personal experience investing in the stock market during the dot-com boom of the late nineties. With an entertaining and accessible style, Paulos interweaves amusing anecdotes with explanations of probability calculation and applied statistics, offering a mathematical perspective on the world of investments. The author raises key questions about the predictability of markets, the quantification of risk, and the effectiveness of technical analysis, providing the reader with tools to better understand the complexities of the stock market and avoid common scams.
John Allen Paulos is an American professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a writer and speaker on mathematics and the importance of mathematical literacy. He writes about the dangers of mathematical innumeracy, ie the layperson's misconceptions about numbers, probability, and logic.
