- Investment advisors, Mathematicians, Finance, Mathematical models
Traces the author's experiences as a mathematics wizard, author, inventor, hedge-fund manager, and card-counter who revealed casino-beating strategies, invented the first wearable computer, and launched a Wall Street revolution.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Edward O. Thorp
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Random House, Oneworld Publications, Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780812979909
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