Finance Math

Are you drowning in debt with no idea how you’ll ever break free? You’re not alone—but you don’t have to stay stuck. Every day feels like a battle—robbing Peter to pay Paul, dodging phone calls from collectors, and lying awake at night wondering how it got this bad. You try to budget, try to save, but the weight of debt crushes every effort. It’s exhausting, discouraging, and at times—completely overwhelming. Financial Freedom 101 is your way out. This book isn’t filled with fluff, gimmicks, or unrealistic get-rich-quick schemes. It’s a clear, practical, and proven guide ...

During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast...

Conquer math anxiety and master personal finance with simple arithmetic that transforms everyday money decisions. Whether you are navigating a stressful paycheck-to-paycheck situation or just want to feel more confident checking your bank balance, this practical guide builds numerical confidence...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don’t know, now with a new section called “On Robustness and Fragility.” A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result in “the ultimate guide to thinking about risk” (Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit). “A big favorite among...

Trading is a chaotic, complex, and loosely-structured game played by the smartest minds and most expensive computers in the world. It is the ultimate puzzle. Few can trade at an elite level for an extended period. The game is constantly changing and the rules, mechanics, and probabilities are difficult to observe and forever in flux. Just when you think you’ve got a plan: BAM.

Math has certainly gotten a bad reputation for being a subject that involves endless calculations and problems that will never be used in the real world, especially now that we all walk around with calculators in our pockets! But the fact is that math is required in multiple areas of an adult’s life, from preparing recipes to managing finances, and that’s without a career in STEM.

In March 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with ­million-dollar stakes. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, who managed a fabulously successful hedge fund called PDT. With him was Ken...

A groundbreaking mathematician presents a new model for understanding financial markets. Benoit B. Mandelbrot, one of the century's most influential mathematicians, is world-famous for making mathematical sense of a fact everybody knows but that geometers from Euclid on down had never...

The Wall Street Journal's award-winning business reporter unveils the bizarre and sinister story of how a math genius named Tom Hayes, a handful of outrageous confederates, and a deeply corrupt banking system ignited one of the greatest financial scandals in history. In 2006, an oddball group of...

It’s not a book about numbers, percentages or decimals. It’s a book that drives to the heart of the money problems many people deal with—because those problems are usually symptoms of a bigger issue. The issue is our inaccurate beliefs, fears and flat-out lies about budgeting. Ramsey Personality and debt elimination expert Jade Warshaw candidly shares how she and her husband, Sam, shifted their mindset around money and paid off over $460,000 in debt—including $280,000 of student loans!

In 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein's. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the...

No is perhaps the most important and certainly the most powerful word in the language. Every day we find ourselves in situations where we need to say No. But as we all know, the wrong No can also destroy what we most value by alienating and angering people. That’s why saying No the right way...

AI Can Reconcile a Million Transactions While You’re Still Opening Excel. Your Career Isn’t Over — It’s About to Get a Massive Upgrade. The finance profession is experiencing its biggest transformation since the spreadsheet. AI is automating bookkeeping. Streamlining audits. Generating tax scenarios. Producing financial models at machine speed. If your value is “I’m good with numbers,” you have a problem — because AI is better with numbers than any human alive. But if your value is strategic judgment, professional skepticism, stakeholder trust, and the ability to translate ...

Master the hidden math of money to transform complex financial valuation into profitable investment strategies. Whether you are studying for business exams or commuting, this audio experience demystifies the quantitative formulas driving global markets. Build a focused, analytical mindset...

Finally Understand Quantum Computing — No Equations, No PhD Required Your firm's CTO just mentioned quantum computing in the all-hands. Your board wants a briefing. Your competitors are launching "quantum-ready" initiatives. And you still don't actually know what a qubit is. Demystifying Qubits is the plain-English primer built for busy professionals who need to understand the quantum computing revolution — fast, accurately, and without a single equation. Curious about qubits but allergic to math? This book builds intuition first and leaves the heavy formulas to graduate textbooks. ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Clear Thinking and Farnam Street founder, Shane Parrish. The third book in the timeless Great Mental Models series. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental...

Decode quantitative finance and master portfolio risk management without drowning in complex Wall Street mathematics. Whether you are commuting to your next big career move or upskilling during a focused study session, this practical audio guide transforms intimidating market data into clear...

Money Matters Made Easy: Finance Made Fun for Kids Is an engaging, introduction to money and finance for younger audiences. It is geared to give insights into the complicated financial world but in a simplified manner. Although, it is intended for kids and teens, all audiences including parents, grandparents, friends and anyone else will find it beneficial. You will learn about the basics of money, budgeting, investments, bank accounts and more! Let's go, start your journey!!

Do you get a sinking feeling in your stomach when you look at a spreadsheet? Have you been told you aren’t a “numbers person”? If you failed high school algebra, or simply never liked it, here is a secret: accounting is not math. It’s simply bookkeeping dressed up as a language. In Financial Accounting for Beginners, college accounting instructor Piers Kensington strips away the dry academic jargon and replaces it with plain English, real-world examples, and step-by-step guidance. Built on years of classroom experience, this book introduces complex financial concepts one digestible ...