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Against the gods : the remarkable story of risk / Peter L. Bernstein.
O'Reilly Online Learning: Academic/Public Library Edition Available online
O'Reilly Online Learning: Academic/Public Library Edition- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernstein, Peter L., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Risk management.
- Decision making.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (615 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Other Title:
- Remarkable story of risk
- Place of Publication:
- 2012.
- New York, New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller" "Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism."" -The New York Times" "An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book."" -The Wall Street Journal" "A lively panoramic book . . . Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise and then delivers on it."" -Business Week" "Deserves to be, and surely will be, widely read."" -The Economist"
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction; To 1200: Beginnings; Chapter 1: The Winds of the Greeks and the Role of the Dice; Chapter 2: As Easy as I, II, III; 1200-1700: A Thousand Outstanding Facts; Chapter 3: The Renaissance Gambler; Chapter 4: The French Connection; Chapter 5: The Remarkable Notions of the Remarkable Notions Man; 1700-1900: Measurement Unlimited; Chapter 6: Considering the Nature of Man; Chapter 7: The Search for Moral Certainty; Chapter 8: The Supreme Law of Unreason; Chapter 9: The Man with the Sprained Brain
- Chapter 10: Peapods and Perils Chapter 11: The Fabric of Felicity; 1900-1960: Clouds of Vagueness and The Demand for Precision; Chapter 12: The Measure of Our Ignorance; Chapter 13: The Radically Distinct Notion; Chapter 14: The Man Who Counted Everything Except Calories; Chapter 15: The Strange Case of the Anonymous Stockbroker; Degrees of Belief: Exploring Uncertainty; Chapter 16: The Failure of Invariance; Chapter 17: The Theory Police; Chapter 18: The Fantastic System of Side Bets; Chapter 19: Awaiting the Wildness; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780471013938
- 0471013935
- 9780471782674
- 047178267X
- OCLC:
- 815382341
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