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

Name: Fortune's Formula The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
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ISBN: 9780809045990

ISBN-10: 0809045990

ISBN-13: 9780809045990

Edition: 2006

Authors: William Poundstone

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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 formula" to Las Vegas. It worked. They realized that there was even more money to be made in the stock market. Thorp used the Kelly system with his phenomenonally successful hedge fund,…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 9/19/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 5.62" wide x 8.26" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

William Poundstone has been nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize. Among his seven books are "The Recursive Universe," "Labyrinths of Reason," and "Big Secrets." He has also written extensively for network television and major magazines. He lives in Los Angeles.