Edward O. Thorp is the author of the bestseller Beat the Dealer, which transformed the game of blackjack. His subsequent book, Beat the Market, co-authored with Sheen T. Kassouf, influenced securities markets around the globe. Thorp is one of the world’s best blackjack players and investors, and his hedge funds were profitable every year for twenty-nine years. He lives in Newport Beach, California.
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.
##不管是谁的传记都不值得读,个人的成功与失败,或命运,你说有没有指导意义,当然从任何事件都可以总结出某些智慧,但这一点不代表我们应该去关注各个事例。
评分##Context: 版本:audible可听书 既有兴趣:从业人员,之前在Fortune's Formula里面已经听过Ed Thorp和Princeton New Port Partners的不少故事,当时就被他的做法之先进震惊了。后来Audible一推荐我就直接买了。 Reading tips: 1. 一定要follow他的细碎计算 我猜很多怕数学...
评分 评分##写至PNP关门前都还挺有意思的,不少有趣的故事,尤其是和香农一起玩耍的那段故事。之后就是一段财务自由的老头的狗尾续貂了。
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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