A Man for All Markets by Edward O Thorp

A Man for All Markets by Edward O Thorp

At last we have an eclectic and down to earth model to treat our patients - also valid as an owner's manual for self-improvement - with a high degree of efficiency. The combination of Western and Eastern approaches to fix the negative way of feeling and thinking is a very welcome one at a time when many people embrace the materialism that comes as a subproduct of modern technology. James Triana has written the book which will revolutionize current concepts in psychotherapy.

Edward O. Thorp, Author and Hedge Fund Manager, and blackjack player best known as the father of wearable computer after inventing the world's first wearable computer in 1961.He was a pioneer in modern applications of probability theory, including the harnessing of very small correlations for reliable financial gain. He was the author of Beat the Dealer, the first book to mathematically prove, in 1962, that the house advantage in blackjack could be overcome by card counting. He also developed and applied effective hedge fund techniques in the financial markets, and collaborated with Claude Shannon in creating the first wearable computer. Thorp received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1958, and worked at M.I.T. from 1959 to 1961. He was a professor of mathematics from 1961-1965 at New Mexico State University, and then joined the University of California, Irvine where he was a professor of mathematics from 1965 to 1977 and a professor of mathematics and finance from 1977 to 1982.