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A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
By Thorp, Edward O.
- ISBN
- 9781400067961 9780812998740
- Publisher
- Random
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Reviewed on January 1, 2017 | Social Sciences
There is gambling, and then there is the sure thing. Somewhere in between lurks probability, chance, and risk. For Thorp (Beat the Dealer), identifying the probability of beating the house became a lifelong challenge. Here, he gives a biographical summation (think Richard Feynman's Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!) of his quest to prove the aphorism "the house always wins" is ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
