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What goes up ... Sir Isaac meets the market

If one of the greats in the history of mathematics and physics -- Sir Isaac Newton -- could act like any crazed and dazed day trader under pressure, what does that say about the chances of us ordinary folk making a killing in the stock market? It's far more likely that the market will kill us.

Andrew Odlyzko, who professes mathematics at

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