Suggested reading for book report
Here is a list of books that you may want to consider for your book report.
- Weapons of math destruction by Cathy O'Neal.
This discusses how Big Data is misused accross today's society.
A warning for any modeler-in-training.
- The Big Short by Michael Lewis.
This discusses what caused the 2008 financial crisis. Note you cannot select this if you already read this book with me in Math 537.
- The signal and the noise by Nate Silver
An excellent book on the applications of Bayes formula to a range of topics.
- Fortune's Formula by William Poundstone.
A quite entertaining book about betting systems, casinos, Wall street.
- The theory that would not die by Sharon Bertsch Mcgrayne
All about Bayes rule and its applications.
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb
Why events which have very small probability matter.
- Gaming the vote by William Poundstone.
A book on whether elections are fair and how to design fair elections.
- The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable by James Owen Weatherall
How math came to be used in Finance.
- Demystifying climate models: a users guide to earth systems models by Andrew Gettelman and Richard Rood.
Weather changing more radically, not just growing warmer. Ebook is free from Springer.
- The drunkard's walk. How randomness rules our lives by Leonard Mlodinov
For the probability inclined.
- Chances are.... Adventures in Probability by Leonard Mlodinov
For the probability inclined.
- The selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.
A classic book on, among other things,
why game theory matters in biology.
- The Information: A history, a theory, a flood by James Gleick.
A book on
information theory. The mathematical concept of "information" plays an increasing role
in many applications.
maybe more to come ...