Art of Statistics by David Spiegelhalter, Introduction

Data science is where you can't ask the question: "So do you use it in life?" That's probably the most common question math instructors get. But to a certain extent, no matter how complicated the mathematics gets, in a statistics class, students will not ask existential questions about what they learn in class. Maybe that's...

A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel

Modern Portfolio Theory attributed to Harry Markowitz says that you can maximize your rate of return by amalgamating a portfolio of diverse stocks in such a way that the risk of the portfolio as a whole is less than that of the individual stocks in it. This is another way of diversifying your portfolio. For...