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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.
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##4.2/5
评分##前面的个人传记有趣，后面关于investment的部分还挺基础的，不过我希望什么都不知道的时候看过会好点。有一部分关于EMH讲得还不错，20章之后大概是在凑字数？Audible听完的，可能漏了一些细节。
评分##想做 quant...
评分##前面的个人传记有趣，后面关于investment的部分还挺基础的，不过我希望什么都不知道的时候看过会好点。有一部分关于EMH讲得还不错，20章之后大概是在凑字数？Audible听完的，可能漏了一些细节。
评分##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
评分##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
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。
评分##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
评分##在天才眼里，一切都是如此简单。人以群分，一生偶遇那么多牛人。他因斯皮策的调查而关闭对冲基金，只能说是因为他出身贫寒，不是既有体制内的人。
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