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Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street Paperback - 2006
by William Poundstone
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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THE STORY STARTS with a corrupt telegraph operator.
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- Title Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
- Author William Poundstone
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 408
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Hill & Wang, New York
- Date September 19, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780809045990 / 0809045990
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.1 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 2.79 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Gambling, Gambling - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 795.015
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