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Million Dollar Maths: The Secret Maths of Becoming Rich
Million Dollar Maths is an invaluable guide to the straightforward and outlandish mathematical strategies that can make you rich.
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How can you turn $1000 into $1 million?
What is the best way to beat the lottery odds?
When is the best time to take out a loan?
How did one group of gamblers bet on hole-in-ones to win £500,000?
How can maths help you set up a successful tech start-up?
What about proving the Goldbach Conjecture for $1 million?
Learn the techniques for growing your everyday finances, as well as the common mistakes to avoid. Discover the skills, both fair and foul, that offer an additional edge when investing and gambling. And discover why we often misunderstand probability and statistics - with troubling financial costs.
From making the most of special offers to utilising the power of exponential growth in your investments; from the art of card counting, to inventing the next Google, Million Dollar Maths is the quintessential primer to the myriad ways maths and finance intersect.
____________
How can you turn $1000 into $1 million?
What is the best way to beat the lottery odds?
When is the best time to take out a loan?
How did one group of gamblers bet on hole-in-ones to win £500,000?
How can maths help you set up a successful tech start-up?
What about proving the Goldbach Conjecture for $1 million?
Learn the techniques for growing your everyday finances, as well as the common mistakes to avoid. Discover the skills, both fair and foul, that offer an additional edge when investing and gambling. And discover why we often misunderstand probability and statistics - with troubling financial costs.
From making the most of special offers to utilising the power of exponential growth in your investments; from the art of card counting, to inventing the next Google, Million Dollar Maths is the quintessential primer to the myriad ways maths and finance intersect.
321 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 1, 2018
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February 7, 2019
A general interest book about math. Some interesting sections relating to gambling and finance, but if you’re already well-read about these subjects, there isn’t anything in this book that you don’t already know. Overall an easy read.
Some peeves:
British and American English spellings are interspersed within the text. Also, usage of dollars and pounds made for a very distracting narrative, especially when there was a section where they were deemed to be equivalent in exchange rates (hint: it’s not). The graph about call option payoff is also wrong because it did not take into account the cost of the call option. ie the break even price is the strike plus the cost of the option. Source: I trade options.
Hopefully the author will correct these errors and maybe even throw in a bibliography or a list of books for further reading.
Some peeves:
British and American English spellings are interspersed within the text. Also, usage of dollars and pounds made for a very distracting narrative, especially when there was a section where they were deemed to be equivalent in exchange rates (hint: it’s not). The graph about call option payoff is also wrong because it did not take into account the cost of the call option. ie the break even price is the strike plus the cost of the option. Source: I trade options.
Hopefully the author will correct these errors and maybe even throw in a bibliography or a list of books for further reading.
August 28, 2023
A great book and a great supplement to the books by Jordan Ellenberg; How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking and Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything. I have been inspired to include more mathematical thinking in my daily practices.
If you want a better understanding of the world. This book and the above mentioned will sharpen your thinking; mathematically.
If you want a better understanding of the world. This book and the above mentioned will sharpen your thinking; mathematically.
March 3, 2022
This book is a collection of randomly interesting things which pertain to markets. They are neither clearly explained, explored, justified or contexualised. This is not even a first draft of a book. Total waste of time unless you want to sit with a pen marking all the errors, non justified conclusions, random anecdotes for no payoff at all. This book should never have been published and I couldn't take it but decided to speed read the last 50 pages just to see if it was any worth at all. There was no worth to be found.
And no it's not even a good first book because the explanations are so bad you need to unlearn them to get them right. Better to just google and watch the first video on each subject.
And no it's not even a good first book because the explanations are so bad you need to unlearn them to get them right. Better to just google and watch the first video on each subject.
May 20, 2019
Ku rasa hampir semua ekuasi di dalam buku ini tidak ku pahami. Hahahah. Tapi cara penulisnya menjelaskan enak, ngalir, enjoy, apa adanya, dan juga lucu. So, the most important message is that, math can help improve your financial situation....
February 17, 2023
If you love mathematics, you will love this book. However, the book's title is a bit misleading. This book covers many topics that are outside of financial success. Apart from that, it is o.k.
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