The Snowball - Warren Buffet and the Business of Life

Miss Alice Schroeder, a former managing director at Morgan Stanley- an insurance analyst - and hand picked by Buffet to be his biographer - strips away the mystery that has long cloaked the world's richest man to reveal a life of fortune erected around lucid and inspired business vision and unimaginable personal complexity.

The Snowball is the much anticipated book recounting with intimate detail the life experiences and life-wisdom of the man known as " The Oracle of Omaha": Warren Buffet.

Being human, Buffet's own life, like most lives, has been a mix of strengths and frailties. Yet notable though his wealth may be, Buffet's legacy will not be his ranking on the scorecard of wealth, it will be his principles and ideas that have enriched people's lives. This book tells you why Warren Buffet is the most fascinating American success story of our time.

Professor John Allen Paulos and his books

John Allen Paulos is a professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia, who has gained fame as a writer and speaker. His book "Innumeracy" was an influential bestseller and "A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper" extended the critique.

The following are the abstracts of some of the books written by him.

Innumeracy - Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences : Innumeracy is an examination of some of the consequences in every day life of mathematical illiteracy. Topics addressed include stock scams, para psychological claims, medical testing & etc.

A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper : The book, structured like the morning paper, investigates the mathematical angles of stories in the news and offers novel perspectives, questions, and ideas to coffer-drinkers, policy-makers, gossip-mongers and others who can't get along without their daily paper.

Mathematics and Humor : In the book, he (i) explores the operations and structures common to humor and the formal sciences. (ii) shows how various notions from these sciences provide formal analogues for different sorts of jokes and joke schema and (iii) develops a mathematical model of jokes using ideas from "catastrophe theory".

A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market : The book primary purpose is to lay out, elucidate, and explore the basic conceptual mathematics of the market.