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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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##想做 quant...
評分##在天纔眼裏，一切都是如此簡單。人以群分，一生偶遇那麼多牛人。他因斯皮策的調查而關閉對衝基金，隻能說是因為他齣身貧寒，不是既有體製內的人。
評分##2017.12.13 在旅行期間陸陸續續看完瞭。索普是一個會寫的人，將他原本就傳奇的經曆寫的生動有趣，也可以從側麵一覽美國賭博業和金融市場當年的發展。故事之外，貫穿全書的基本思想，一是學會獨立思考，二是生活的意義在於你如何利用時間。就這樣，他一次又一次的走在市場前麵，贏得瞭金錢，也擁有瞭生活。
評分##勉強四星吧，自傳一般都無趣，本書也不例外，但還是有部分亮點，另外可讀性不錯
評分##隻要是傳記我就喜歡..自傳要區分哪裏是坦白的；遮遮掩掩，修飾得自己一無弊病的人，他的話是不可信的
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##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##勉強四星吧，自傳一般都無趣，本書也不例外，但還是有部分亮點，另外可讀性不錯
評分##不管是誰的傳記都不值得讀，個人的成功與失敗，或命運，你說有沒有指導意義，當然從任何事件都可以總結齣某些智慧，但這一點不代錶我們應該去關注各個事例。
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