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Fortune's Formula
- The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
- Written by: William Poundstone
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
In 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein's. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the science of information theory - the basis of computers and the Internet - to the problem of making as much money as possible as fast as possible.
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Fortune's Formula
- The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2017-06-20
- Language: English
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