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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讀書計劃•貳拾捌】巨贊，是我欣賞的偶像啊！！強烈推薦大傢讀，比黑客和畫傢還棒！
評分##【2017讀書計劃•貳拾捌】巨贊，是我欣賞的偶像啊！！強烈推薦大傢讀，比黑客和畫傢還棒！
評分##想做 quant...
評分##寫至PNP關門前都還挺有意思的，不少有趣的故事，尤其是和香農一起玩耍的那段故事。之後就是一段財務自由的老頭的狗尾續貂瞭。
評分##勉強四星吧，自傳一般都無趣，本書也不例外，但還是有部分亮點，另外可讀性不錯
評分前麵：我如何如何牛；中間：SEC是豬；最後：CFA入門教材
評分##前麵的個人傳記有趣，後麵關於investment的部分還挺基礎的，不過我希望什麼都不知道的時候看過會好點。有一部分關於EMH講得還不錯，20章之後大概是在湊字數？Audible聽完的，可能漏瞭一些細節。
評分##Pros: bigger profits attracts bigger thieves -- the way they play is way more dirty, inefficient market is not an argument, it is how we can explore -- turn all into chances... Cons: he is a genius, not much experience revealed when he got challenged, stuck in life and how he got around, neither how he made major decisions..
評分##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
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