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Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

Paperback • 2006 • English

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

By William Poundstone

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About the book

In 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein's. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the science of information theory the basis of computers and the Internet to the problem of making as much money as possible, as fast as possible. Shannon and MIT mathematician Edward O. Thorp took the "Kelly f...Show more

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ISBN

9780809045990

Publisher

Hill Wang

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

Format

Paperback

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