Against the gods : the remarkable story of risk / Peter L. Bernstein.

By:

Bernstein, Peter L

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : John Wiley & Sons, 1998Description: xi, 383 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:

9780471295631
0471295639
0471121045

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

368 21

Summary: Against the Gods, a narrative that reads like a novel, chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from the oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today. This is a richly-woven tale of Greek philosophers and Arab mathematicians, of merchants and scientists, gamblers and philosophers, world-renowned intellects and obscure but inspired amateurs who helped discover the modern methods of putting the future at the service of the present, replacing helplessness before the fates with choice and decision.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks	Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks	368 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		3010036397
Book	Ayesha Abed Library Akbar Ali Khan Collection	Ayesha Abed Library Akbar Ali Khan Collection	368 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	2	Not For Loan		3010040344

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-364) and indexes.

Against the Gods, a narrative that reads like a novel, chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from the oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today. This is a richly-woven tale of Greek philosophers and Arab mathematicians, of merchants and scientists, gamblers and philosophers, world-renowned intellects and obscure but inspired amateurs who helped discover the modern methods of putting the future at the service of the present, replacing helplessness before the fates with choice and decision.

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