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A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation

by Richard Bookstaber · 5 Apr 2007 · 289pp · 113,211 words

the world of trading. This move was a natural. Thorp was the first great analytically oriented trader. An MIT mathematician, he was the author of Beat the Dealer (Random House, 1966), which introduced the concept of card counting to blackjack. He wrote the book to spread his techniques after he had been banned

Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis

by Scott Patterson · 5 Jun 2023 · 289pp · 95,046 words

across time. It’s what blows up banks and hedge funds that don’t manage their risk properly. They might get a lucky streak and beat the dealer ten times in a row, but on the eleventh bet they can lose it all. Taleb and his coauthors describe this as the difference between

Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

by Leslie Berlin · 7 Nov 2017 · 615pp · 168,775 words

called Dealers. “Dealer” also had a more antagonistic connotation. Taylor had read the popular 1962 how-to guide on card counting, Edward O. Thorp’s Beat the Dealer. He hoped that meeting participants would use their expertise to poke holes in a presenter’s work in the same way that card counters used

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Bally, 109, 113–16, 125n, 346 Baran, Paul, 21 Barnes, Andy, 266–67 BASIC programing language, 66, 149, 207–9 Bayh-Dole Act, 264–65 Beat the Dealer (Thorp), 99 Bechtolsheim, Andy, 364–65 Bell and Howell, 292–93 Bell Labs: Kurtzig and, 64–69 mainframe computers and, 67–68, 83 Spencer and

Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance

by Paul Wilmott · 3 Jan 2007 · 345pp · 86,394 words

he figured out how to win at casino Blackjack, ideas that were put into practice by Thorp himself and written about in his best-selling Beat the Dealer, the “book that made Las Vegas change its rules.” His second claim to fame is that he invented and built, with Claude Shannon, the information

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. USSR Comp. Maths and Math. Phys. 7 86-112 Stachel, J (ed.) 1990 The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Princeton University Press Thorp, EO 1962 Beat the Dealer. Vintage Thorp, EO & Kassouf, S 1967 Beat the Market. Random House Thorp, EO 2002 Wilmott magazine, various papers Traub, JF & Wozniakowski, H 1994 Breaking intractability

Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives

by Satyajit Das · 15 Nov 2006 · 349pp · 134,041 words

business and profits for the banks. ‘Zaiteku’ or the bride stripped bare Having mastered the business of hedging, corporations rapidly moved on to trying to beat the dealers at their own game: trading. In 1991, Allied Lyons (now known as Allied Domecq), a British food and drinks company, lost Having mastered the £150

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book by Edward Thorp and Sheen Kassouf, Beat the Market, set out the principles of convertible arbitrage. Thorp was already well known for another book, Beat the Dealer, which set out the process of card counting in blackjack. Thorp and Kassouf outlined the idea of breaking up a convertible bond into its bond

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff · 1 Jan 2005 · 394pp · 108,215 words

researchers in the fall of 1974. The gatherings were known as “Dealers” and had been instituted by Taylor, who took the name from the book Beat the Dealer by Edward O. Thorp, the MIT professor who had developed a system for winning at blackjack. Taylor was taken by the image of a nerdy

Beat the Market

by Edward Thorp · 15 Oct 1967

Other books by EDWARD O. THORP Elementary Probability Beat the Dealer Other books by SHEEN T. KASSOUF Evaluation of Convertible Securities A Theory and an Econometric Model for Common Stock Purchase Warrants BEAT THE MARKET A

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Bank Bond Portfolios. Salomon Bros. and Hutzler, New York, 1959. The role convertible bonds can play in a bank’s portfolio. [19] Thorp, Edward O., Beat the Dealer. Revised. Random House, New York, 1966. The best seller which presents a winning strategy for the casino game of blackjack, or twenty-one. Includes anecdotes

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how to draw, 48, 81 with reverse hedge, 124 Yearly range, 119 ABOUT THE AUTHORS EDWARD O. THORP is the author of the best-seller Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of TwentyOne, published by Random House in 1962 and in revised form in 1966. It presented the first scientific

Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy

by Iain Martin · 11 Sep 2013 · 387pp · 119,244 words

2006. 2 Edward O. Thorp was one such pioneer in America, a Maths professor who perfected a gambling system and wrote the best-selling books Beat the Dealer and then Beat the Stock Market. In the early 1970s he applied his talents to creating a hedge fund, Princeton Newport Partners. 3 When Genius

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

by Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman · 31 Dec 1970 · 181pp · 54,629 words

, that vision of the Big Winner somehow emerging from the last-minute pre-dawn chaos of a stale Vegas casino. Big strike in Silver City. Beat the dealer and go home rich. Why not? I stopped at the Money Wheel and dropped a dollar on Thomas Jefferson—a $2 bill, the straight Freak

The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

by Walter Isaacson · 6 Oct 2014 · 720pp · 197,129 words

, but then are expected to articulate the other side of the dispute. Taylor did that at what he called “Dealer” meetings (evoking people trying to beat the dealer at blackjack), in which one person had to present an idea while others engaged in constructive (usually) criticism. Taylor was not a technology wizard himself