Full name: Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Author: Peter L. Bernstein Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Business, Science Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon Barns&Noble eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780471295631 0471295639

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. Similar books: Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage The Quants by Scott Patterson Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed Devil Take the Hindmost by Edward Chancellor Bull! by Maggie Mahar Empires of Light by Jill Jonnes The One Device by Brian Merchant Wedding of the Waters by Peter L. Bernstein 1491 by Charles C. Mann The Great Influenza by John M. Barry 1493 by Charles C. Mann Connections by James Burke Polio by David M. Oshinsky The Codebreakers by David Kahn A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester The Big Oyster by Mark Kurlansky The American Plague by Molly Caldwell Crosby The Most Powerful Idea in the World by William Rosen Beyond Uncertainty by David C. Cassidy