num_pages: 383
description: 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.
language: English
title: Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
titlecomplete: Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
genres: Mathematics, Finance, History, Philosophy, Economics, Psychology, Business, Science, Money, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 13268
publisher: Wiley