![]() Regardless his brightness, he committed a seriously flawed decision and, even more compellingly, he couldn’t rescue himself from the negative psychological spiral arising from it. The reference to his huge losses due to a WCOM stock investment is ubiquitous, exasperated until almost creating embarrassment in the reader herself. Here comes the biggest lesson I learnt from the book. Leafing through the pages, the author never misses a chance to remark its dramatic experience with the stock market. Useful for neophytes, interesting for acquainted and incomplete for experts, such a reading explores widely but not deeply the mechanism underneath the financial world, stressing its chaotic, subjective and non-linear nature. Moreover, he manages to smoothly provide contributions from the most disparate scientific fields, without losing the thread or overloading the reader’s understanding. In A Mathematician plays the stock market, the author sows countless mathematical seeds without going into overcomplicated details and reduces the conceptual and interdisciplinary stock market complexity with catchy examples and well-crafted simplifications. He actively fights against math illiteracy and proved an unique and rare thoughtfulness throughout the years.īefore explaining how, let me briefly outline the book’s soul. ![]() ![]() John Allen Paulos is a brilliant mathematician and eloquent speaker. ![]()
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