[Man] invented a concept that has since been variously viewed as a vice, a crime, a business, a pleasure, a type of magic, a disease, a folly, a weakness, a form of sexual substitution, an expression of the human instinct. He invented gambling. Richard Epstein's classic book on gambling and its mathematical analysis covers the full range of games from penny matching, to blackjack and other casino games, to the stock market (including Black-Scholes analysis). He even considers what light statistical inference can shed on the study of paranormal phenomena. Epstein is witty and insightful, a pleasure to dip into and read and rewarding to study.
- ISBN10 0080958613
- ISBN13 9780080958613
- Publish Date 12 August 2009 (first published September 1967)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Elsevier Science & Technology
- Imprint Academic Press Inc.(London) Ltd
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format eBook
- Pages 450
- Language English