Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of...
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With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos theory. Along the way he demonstrates that understanding risk underlies everything from game theory to bridge-building to winemaking.
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- Pages:383 pages
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- Edition:Edition Unstated
- Language:eng
- ISBN10:0471295639
- ISBN13:9780471295631
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