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他：
地球上第一个使用“穿戴式计算机的人”，
历史上第一个利用策略决胜 21 点游戏的人，
1967 年创立的一万美元对冲基金从在他在赌场上赢来的一万美元开始，到了 1985 年，掌管资金已经高达 1.3 亿美元，
1964 年的《干掉庄家》（Beat the Dealer） 和 1967 年的《干掉市场》（Beat the Market），都是金融从业者的必读书籍，
他就是
Edward O. Thorp
集：数学教授、赌徒、发明家（下图就是他的发明）、
对冲避险基金经理人、作家，于一身
在今年年初，这位神人出版了传记，
从小时候如神童般的表现，在家里搞化学实验，到成为数学教授，遇到费曼询问他有关于轮转盘可不可预测，与巴菲特当朋友等等，说故事的能力不在话下，但说的故事却都是事实。整本书读下来，你除了会感受到故事精彩之外，我想更能令你印象深刻的会是作者对学习与思考的看法，比如下面这句：
Though we didn’t have helpful connections and I went to public schools, I found a resource that made all the difference: I learned how to think.
若你对这本书有兴趣的话，先下翻，订阅信息在广告之后。
A Man For All Markets
ET201710
by Edward O. Thorp
Print Length: 416 pages
“In
A Man for All Markets
, [Thorp] delightfully recounts his progress (if that is the word) from college teacher to gambler to hedge-fund manager. Along the way we learn important lessons about the functioning of markets and the logic of investment.”
—
The Wall Street Journal
“[Thorp] gives a biological summation (think Richard Feynman’s
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
) of his quest to prove the aphorism ‘the house always wins’ is flawed. . . . Illuminating for the mathematically inclined, and cautionary for would-be gamblers and day traders”
—
Library Journal
“[
A Man for All Markets
is] the kind of thing any would-be investor, to say nothing of casino cowboy, ought to read. Thorp’s in-the-trenches account of gaming the system(s) is a pleasure—and instructive, too.”
—
Kirkus Reviews
“An amazing book by a true icon . . . Edward O. Thorp launched revolutions in Vegas and on Wall Street by turning math into magic, and here he weaves his own life lessons into a page-turner as hot as a deck full of aces. Loved it!”
—Ben Mezrich,
New York Times
bestselling author of
Bringing Down the House
and
The Accidental Billionaires
“Whether you are an aspiring professional player, a casual gambler, or an occasional visitor to Las Vegas, you can feel the impact of Edward O. Thorp’s intellect on that desert city. In 1962, Thorp published the classic book
