A Man for All Markets : From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market

作者：EdwardO.Thorp

出版社：RandomHouse

副标题：FromLasVegastoWallStreet,HowIBeattheDealerandtheMarket

出版年：2017-1-24

页数：416

定价：USD30.00

装帧：Hardcover

ISBN：9781400067961

内容简介
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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.

作者简介
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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.

评论 ······

诚意不足的自传，读者目的是学习了解其投资技术的话，还不如去看William Poundstone的《Fortune's Formula》

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

1.传奇的人生；2.总能在恰当的时候放弃旁人看来可能觉得可惜的路，佩服；3.听到好多教科书中熟悉的名字；4.要是早点看到这本书我一定会更认真学数学；5.产生了一种“我也可以写几行代码轻松套利”的错觉；6.要是少一点“我和诺奖得主曾在一所学校任教（虽然我俩不熟）”““我女儿收到了巴菲特的回信（虽然后来什么也没发生）”这类无关紧要的内容会更好

勉强四星吧，自传一般都无趣，本书也不例外，但还是有部分亮点，另外可读性不错

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