"Life is like reading a novel or running a marathon. It's not so much about reaching a goal but rather about the journey itself and the experiences along the way."

— Edward O. Thorp

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"Life is like reading a novel or running a marathon. It's not so much about reaching a goal but rather about the journey itself and the experiences along the way."

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Era: Post-War Boom

Region: Options

Edward O. Thorp

Edward O. Thorp

1932 – Present
Post-War Boom Options

American mathematician, hedge-fund manager and author, and a pioneer of quantitative investing. He devised the first scientific blackjack card-counting system and, with Sheen Kassouf, an early options-pricing and delta-hedging model that anticipated Black-Scholes. He ran the market-beating fund Princeton/Newport Partners and wrote the memoir "A Man for All Markets."

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