The advantage in two-handed blackjack, long supposed to lie with Ihe dealer or the house, was converted recently to the profit of the player by EDWARD O. THORP,a young assistant professor in the ...

Take it from a 91-year-old mathematician: Living a long, healthy life is like a game of probability. You want to "minimize the chance of really bad outcomes of one sort or another," Edward Thorp ...

SIR EDWARD THORPE, who has enriched chemical literature with so many valuable biographical contributions, has added greatly to our indebtedness by the publication of these two small volumes of ...

Edward Thorp — a mathematics professor, inventor, entrepreneur, founder of the first quant hedge fund, blackjack player and the best-selling author of Beat the Dealer, the first book to ...

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