February 1, 2010 - TERRY GROSS, host:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross.
The guy who basically invented card counting to beat the house in blackjack, Ed Thorp, took his math skills to Wall Street in the 1960s, started a hedge fund, and paved the way for a new breed of mathematical traders who became known as quants.....
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