- risk management, decision making, abacus, algebra
History of Probability, Statistics and Risk Management presented in a clear and comprehensible way.
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Cool, earnest, classical in form and spare.
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Peter L. Bernstein
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 383
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Simon & Schuster Audio, Wiley
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- Japanese, English
- ISBN
- 9780471295631
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“Why is the mastery of risk such a uniquely modern concept?”
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