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Title: KELLY CAPITAL GROWTH INVESTMENT CRITERION, ...
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
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Edward O Thorp is widely known as the author of the 1962 Beat the Dealer, which was the first book to prove mathematically that blackjack could be beaten by card counting, and the 1967 Beat the Market, which showed how warrant option markets could be priced and beaten. He is regarded as one of the best hedge fund managers in the world. He is also regarded as the co-inventor of the first wearable computer along with Claude Shannon. Thorp received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1958 and worked at MIT from 1959 to 1961. He was a professor of mathematics from 1965 to 1977 and a professor of mathematics and finance from 1977 to 1982 at the University of California, Irvine.
William T Ziemba is the Alumni Professor (Emeritus) of Financial Modeling and Stochastic Optimization in the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada where he taught from 1968 to 2004. He obtained his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969. He now teaches as a Visiting Professor at world-reknowned institutions including Cambridge, Oxford, London School of Economics, Reading ICMA Centre, and Warwick in the UK; Stanford, UCLA, Berkeley, Chicago and MIT in the US; Bergamo and Venice in Italy; Toulouse and EDHEC in France; Tsukuba in Japan; the National University of Singapore and the National Technological University in Singapore. Leading financial institutions, which he has been consultant to, include the Frank Russell Company, Morgan Stanley, Buchanan Partners, Gordon Capital, Matcap Capital, and Private International Wealth Management. His research is in asset-liability management, portfolio theory and practice, security market imperfections, Japanese and Asian financial markets, sports and lottery investments, and applied stochastic programming.
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