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Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
Fortune's Formula The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
Author: William Poundstone
In 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein’s. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the science of information theory—the basis o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780809045990
ISBN-10: 0809045990
Publication Date: 9/19/2006
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Hill and Wang
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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