Edward O. Thorp - Math professor, inventor, best-selling author, …
Edward O. Thorp is an American mathematics professor, hedge fund manager, and blackjack player. To beat roulette, he and the father of information theory, Claude Shannon, invented the first wearable computer.
About - Edward O. Thorp
Edward O. Thorp is an American mathematics professor, hedge fund manager, and blackjack player. To beat roulette, he and the father of information theory, Claude Shannon, invented the first wearable computer. Along with innovative applications of probability theory, Thorp is also the New York Times bestselling author […]
Books - Edward O. Thorp
The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street.
Articles - Edward O. Thorp
Welcome Dr Thorp; Probability and Statistics. Generalized Topologies for Statistical Metric Spaces; Nontransitive Dice With Equal Means; Poincares Conjecture and the Distribution of Digits in Tables; The Metrization of Statistical Metric Spaces; …
Beat the Market - Edward O. Thorp
A Scientific Stock-Market System. One of the most influential books of all time on Wall Street, whose methods launched “the quant” revolution of modern quantitative finance.
A Man For All Markets - Edward O. Thorp
A child of the Great Depression, legendary mathematician Edward O. Thorp invented card counting, proving that you could do the seemingly impossible—beat the dealer at the blackjack table—and in doing so launched a gambling renaissance.
Beat The Dealer - Edward O. Thorp
Edward O. Thorp is the father of card counting, and in Beat the Dealer he reveals the revolutionary point system that has been successfully used by professional and amateur card players for two generations.
Elementary Probability - Edward O. Thorp
A brief introduction to probability theory presenting step-by-step finite, discrete and continuous probability concepts.
Contact - Edward O. Thorp
Edward O. Thorp 220 Newport Center Drive Suite 11, PMB 359 Newport Beach, California 92660
News & Events - Edward O. Thorp
A new exhibit featuring some of Ed’s papers, memorabilia and the first wearable computer, is on display at the Muriel Ansley Reynolds Gallery, Langson Library, University of California Irvine. Finding the Edge: The Work and Insights of Edward O. Thorp. Reviews. A Man for All Markets reviewed in The Wall Street Journal