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The amazing true tale of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the planet how to overcome the dealer and, as the first of the fantastic quantitative buyers, ushered in a trend on Wall Block. A kid of the Great Depression, legendary mathematician Edward O. Thorp created card counting, showing the apparently impossible: you could beat the dealer at the blackjack stand. Because of this he launched a playing renaissance. His remarkable success - and mathematically unassailable method - induced this uproar that casinos changed the guidelines of the overall game to thwart him and the legions he encouraged. They barred him using their premises, even put his life in danger. Nonetheless, playing was forever modified. Thereafter, Thorp shifted his places to "the biggest casino on the globe": Wall Block. Devising and then deploying numerical formulas to overcome the marketplace, Thorp ushered in the time of quantitative money we reside in today. On the way, the so-called godfather of the quants performed bridge with Warren Buffett, crossed swords with a Rudy Giuliani, recognized the Bernie Madoff design, and, to overcome the overall game of roulette, created, with Claude Shannon, the world's first wearable computer. Here, for the first time, Thorp tells the storyplot of what he does, how he did it, his passions and motivations, and the interest that has always driven him to disregard conventional intelligence and devise game-changing answers to seemingly insoluble problems. An intellectual enjoyment ride, replete with practical intelligence that can guide people in uncertain financial waters, A Man for all those Markets is an instant old classic - a publication that issues its readers to believe logically about a apparently irrational world.
