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Cover of Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street by William Poundstone

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

William Poundstone · 2005
Mentioned 3 times across 1 podcast · 2019–2026
Mention timeline3 mentions
20192026
Where it's mentioned
#428 How Claude Shannon Worked
Founders · Aug 2026 · 45:14
i'm gonna read a quote uh paragraph from there uh from that book in one second too but i just want to give you an overview of why he's doing this again it just it was just another puzzle shin's interest in money resembled his other passions he was not out to accrue wealth for wealth's sake nor did he have any burning desire to own the finer things in life but money created markets and math puzzles for problems that could be analyzed and interpreted and played out so then let ▶ tap to hear this moment · 24s
#95 Claude Shannon
Founders · Oct 2019 · 4:50
i s covered uh on the when i covered fortune's formula clutch hannon had one of the best investing records of all time ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s
#92 Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon
Founders · Oct 2019 · 0:15
william poundstone's book fortune's formula collects much of the modern evidence on this point ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s