by John Allen Paulos
ISBN: 0465054811
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DanBC · 2014-11-30 · Original thread
For a different take people might be interested in "A Mathematician Plays the Stockmarket", by John Allen Paulos (he also wrote the excellent "Innumeracy").

The book explains a bunch of mistakes he made when investing.

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematician-Plays-The-Stock-Market/d...