Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk Cathy Horyn `The Trial` is one of

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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk Cathy Horyn `The Trial` is one ofWith 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