Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
of Peter L. Bernstein
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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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- Format Paperback
- Pages 383 pages
- Publisher Wiley
- Publication Date September 14th 1998
- First Publication 08/24/96
- Language English
- ISBN 9780471295631
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
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