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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 of computer...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780809046379
ISBN-10: 0809046377
Publication Date: 9/14/2005
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Hill and Wang
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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