具體描述
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.
用戶評價
##前半部分透露齣些沾沾自喜的口氣有點煩人，但是故事講的精彩。到瞭後半不講故事開始一些雜亂的平行話題，也有點散
評分##Pros: bigger profits attracts bigger thieves -- the way they play is way more dirty, inefficient market is not an argument, it is how we can explore -- turn all into chances... Cons: he is a genius, not much experience revealed when he got challenged, stuck in life and how he got around, neither how he made major decisions..
評分##1.傳奇的人生；2.總能在恰當的時候放棄旁人看來可能覺得可惜的路，佩服；3.聽到好多教科書中熟悉的名字；4.要是早點看到這本書我一定會更認真學數學；5.産生瞭一種“我也可以寫幾行代碼輕鬆套利”的錯覺；6.要是少一點“我和諾奬得主曾在一所學校任教（雖然我倆不熟）”““我女兒收到瞭巴菲特的迴信（雖然後來什麼也沒發生）”這類無關緊要的內容會更好
評分##半本好書，前麵挺有意思，講他如何少年時的讀書生涯，如何在幾個專業間流轉，如何解齣21點，如何成為最早的quant並建立自己的hedge fund。可惜後麵部分行文太過隨意，沒什麼有深度的東西瞭。
評分##所以BS model應該叫Thorp Model???
評分前麵：我如何如何牛；中間：SEC是豬；最後：CFA入門教材
評分##好看，如果把最後幾章他所謂的人生感悟砍掉可以再加半顆星
評分##4.2/5
評分##4.2/5
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