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Against the Gods:
The Remarkable Story of Risk

by Peter L. Bernstein

ISBN 0471121045 / 9780471121046 / 0-471-12104-5
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Language English
Edition Hardcover
List price $45.00
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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. [via]