When am I ever going to use this in REAL life?

Whoever you are, if you're ever heard your children, your students, your friends, your employees, or yourself ever asking yourself when are you ever going to use statistics, or higher level math, more generally, in your "real life," then read these two books:



Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets by Frank Partnoy

and



My Life As A Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance by Columbia's Own Emanuel Derman