Fortune's Formula

By - Poundstone, William

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Hill and Wang, New York, 2005

ISBN 10 - 0809045990

ISBN 13 - 9780809045990

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Gambling History

Shelf No - 1

Call Number - 795.015 POU

Physical Description - x, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes - Includes index

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In 1961, MIT mathematics professor Ed Thorp made a small Vegas fortune by "counting cards"; his 1962 bestseller, "Beat the Dealer," made the phrase a household word. With Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, Thorp next conquered the roulette tables. In this prosaic but fascinating cultural history, the author tells not only what they did but how they did it.

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