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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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##隻要是傳記我就喜歡..自傳要區分哪裏是坦白的；遮遮掩掩，修飾得自己一無弊病的人，他的話是不可信的
評分##2017.12.13 在旅行期間陸陸續續看完瞭。索普是一個會寫的人，將他原本就傳奇的經曆寫的生動有趣，也可以從側麵一覽美國賭博業和金融市場當年的發展。故事之外，貫穿全書的基本思想，一是學會獨立思考，二是生活的意義在於你如何利用時間。就這樣，他一次又一次的走在市場前麵，贏得瞭金錢，也擁有瞭生活。
評分##半本好書，前麵挺有意思，講他如何少年時的讀書生涯，如何在幾個專業間流轉，如何解齣21點，如何成為最早的quant並建立自己的hedge fund。可惜後麵部分行文太過隨意，沒什麼有深度的東西瞭。
評分##所以BS model應該叫Thorp Model???
評分##前半部分透露齣些沾沾自喜的口氣有點煩人，但是故事講的精彩。到瞭後半不講故事開始一些雜亂的平行話題，也有點散
評分前麵：我如何如何牛；中間：SEC是豬；最後：CFA入門教材
評分前麵：我如何如何牛；中間：SEC是豬；最後：CFA入門教材
評分##不管是誰的傳記都不值得讀，個人的成功與失敗，或命運，你說有沒有指導意義，當然從任何事件都可以總結齣某些智慧，但這一點不代錶我們應該去關注各個事例。
評分##在天纔眼裏，一切都是如此簡單。人以群分，一生偶遇那麼多牛人。他因斯皮策的調查而關閉對衝基金，隻能說是因為他齣身貧寒，不是既有體製內的人。
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