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In 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age; the other was John L. Kelly, Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied information theory--the basis of computers and the Internet--to the problem of making as much money as possible, as fast as possible. Shannon and MIT mathematician Edward O. Thorp took the "Kelly formula" to the...
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William Poundstone takes us on an astonishing intellectual voyage into realms of delightful uncertainty. The paradoxes he explores are not hard to understand. In fact, upon first hearing one, most people think they know the answer - until they think again. And that is precisely what Poundstone makes us do here - he makes us think, and think again, about matter and antimatter, black holes and time travel, coded manuscripts and unbreakable codes, Holmesian...