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Category - Non Fiction / Business & Economics
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Like New
Listed - 2 months ago
Views - 22
Wishes - 1
Ships From - Michigan
Est. Publication Date - Aug 1996
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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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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
ISBN: 9780471121046
Publisher Description
An entertaining blend of biography and history shows how famous scientists and creative amateurs developed the concepts of risk, risk management, and probability, paving the way for progress in busine...
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