发表于2025-05-26
Edward O. Thorp is the author of the bestseller Beat the Dealer, which transformed the game of blackjack. His subsequent book, Beat the Market, co-authored with Sheen T. Kassouf, influenced securities markets around the globe. Thorp is one of the world’s best blackjack players and investors, and his hedge funds were profitable every year for twenty-nine years. He lives in Newport Beach, California.
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.
A Man for All Markets 下载 mobi pdf epub txt 电子书 格式 2025
A Man for All Markets 下载 mobi epub pdf 电子书##战胜一切市场的人 《A MAN FOR ALL MARKETS》 EDWARD.O.THORP 作者自传性质的小说,作者总结自己后来的成功来自于青少年时期的一系列锻炼,包括实验精神,动手能力(人类第一个穿戴式电脑),选择市场的能力(从化学转到物理系和数学系,从21点到轮盘赌到期权定价)。 21点时期...
评分 评分##所需背景知识点较多,断断续续到现在才看完。从拉斯维加斯赌场到华尔街,从“ 21点计牌策略、凯利公式、可转债对冲”到“布莱克-舒尔兹公式(其实是索普第一个发现,可以拿诺贝尔奖)、统计套利”等,横跨资产管理、日常生活、学习。写得坦诚,让人受益匪浅,索普把他的高智商...
评分 评分 评分 评分##好看,如果把最后几章他所谓的人生感悟砍掉可以再加半颗星
评分 评分##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..
A Man for All Markets mobi epub pdf txt 电子书 格式下载 2025