A Man for All Markets
From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street. A child of the Great Depression, legendary mathematician Edward O. Thorp invented card counting, proving the seemingly impossible: that you could beat the dealer at the blackjack table. As a result he launched a gambling renaissance. His remarkable success-and mathematically unassailable method-caused such an uproar that casinos altered the rules of the game to thwart him and the legions he inspired. They barred him from their premises, e…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8129-9874-0
- EAN: 9780812998740
- Produktnummer: 17462651
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 12'192 KB
- Abbildungen: 11 CHARTS; 8-PP PHOTO INSERT
Über den Autor
Edward O. Thorp is the author of the bestseller Beat the Dealer, which transformed the game of blackjack. His subsequent book, Beat the Market, co-authored with Sheen T. Kassouf, influenced securities markets around the globe. Thorp is one of the world's best blackjack players and investors, and his hedge funds were profitable every year for twenty-nine years. He lives in Newport Beach, California.
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