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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, even put his life in jeopardy. Nonetheless, gambling was forever changed.
Thereafter, Thorp shifted his sights to “the biggest casino in the world”: Wall Street. Devising and then deploying mathematical formulas to beat the market, Thorp ushered in the era of quantitative finance we live in today. Along the way, the so-called godfather of the quants played bridge with Warren Buffett, crossed swords with a young Rudy Giuliani, detected the Bernie Madoff scheme, and, to beat the game of roulette, invented, with Claude Shannon, the world’s first wearable computer.
Here, for the first time, Thorp tells the story of what he did, how he did it, his passions and motivations, and the curiosity that has always driven him to disregard conventional wisdom and devise game-changing solutions to seemingly insoluble problems. An intellectual thrill ride, replete with practical wisdom that can guide us all in uncertain financial waters, A Man for All Markets is an instant classic—a book that challenges its readers to think logically about a seemingly irrational world.
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##【2017读书计划•贰拾捌】巨赞，是我欣赏的偶像啊！！强烈推荐大家读，比黑客和画家还棒！
评分##所以BS model应该叫Thorp Model???
评分##2017.12.13 在旅行期间陆陆续续看完了。索普是一个会写的人，将他原本就传奇的经历写的生动有趣，也可以从侧面一览美国赌博业和金融市场当年的发展。故事之外，贯穿全书的基本思想，一是学会独立思考，二是生活的意义在于你如何利用时间。就这样，他一次又一次的走在市场前面，赢得了金钱，也拥有了生活。
评分##只要是传记我就喜欢..自传要区分哪里是坦白的；遮遮掩掩，修饰得自己一无弊病的人，他的话是不可信的
评分##好看，如果把最后几章他所谓的人生感悟砍掉可以再加半颗星
评分##2017.12.13 在旅行期间陆陆续续看完了。索普是一个会写的人，将他原本就传奇的经历写的生动有趣，也可以从侧面一览美国赌博业和金融市场当年的发展。故事之外，贯穿全书的基本思想，一是学会独立思考，二是生活的意义在于你如何利用时间。就这样，他一次又一次的走在市场前面，赢得了金钱，也拥有了生活。
评分##【2017读书计划•贰拾捌】巨赞，是我欣赏的偶像啊！！强烈推荐大家读，比黑客和画家还棒！
评分##前面的个人传记有趣，后面关于investment的部分还挺基础的，不过我希望什么都不知道的时候看过会好点。有一部分关于EMH讲得还不错，20章之后大概是在凑字数？Audible听完的，可能漏了一些细节。
评分##半本好书，前面挺有意思，讲他如何少年时的读书生涯，如何在几个专业间流转，如何解出21点，如何成为最早的quant并建立自己的hedge fund。可惜后面部分行文太过随意，没什么有深度的东西了。
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