{"id":8478,"date":"2016-10-09T19:50:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T02:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=8478"},"modified":"2016-10-09T19:51:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T02:51:47","slug":"foreword-to-ed-thorps-memoirs-a-man-for-all-markets-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/foreword-to-ed-thorps-memoirs-a-man-for-all-markets-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreword to Ed Thorp\u2019s Memoirs (A Man for All Markets) | Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Link to article. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@nntaleb\/foreword-to-ed-thorps-memoirs-a-man-for-all-markets-6beba78cd2b#.1nbqwp7zd\" target=\"_blank\">Foreword to Ed Thorp\u2019s Memoirs (A Man for All Markets)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ed Thorp is the first modern mathematician who <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">successfully<\/em> used quantitative methods for risk taking \u2013and most certainly the first mathematician who met financial success doing it. Since then there have been a cohort, such as the Stony Brook whiz kids \u2013but Thorp is their dean.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link to article. Foreword to Ed Thorp\u2019s Memoirs (A Man for All Markets) Ed Thorp is the first modern mathematician who successfully used quantitative methods for risk taking \u2013and most certainly the first mathematician who met financial success doing it. Since then there have been a cohort, such as the Stony Brook whiz kids \u2013but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[288],"tags":[1352],"class_list":["post-8478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-ed-thorp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8482,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478\/revisions\/8482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}