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“The house always wins.” Edward O. Thorp took that as a mathematical challenge—and completely rewrote gambling history.
In this video, we dive into the fascinating true story of Edward O. Thorp, the young mathematics professor who used an IBM 704 computer to prove that you can beat the casino. Before Thorp, blackjack was largely considered a game of pure chance. But by programming the computer to run through millions of hands, Thorp mathematically proved that the game is not an “independent trials process”—meaning the odds actually shift depending on the cards left in the deck.
He worked on it for a year & published his secrets in the 1962 bestseller Beat the Dealer, which caused such a panic that casinos were forced to permanently change their rules to defend against the legions of players he inspired.
But Thorp didn’t stop at the blackjack table! Discover how this mathematical pioneer teamed up with Claude Shannon to invent the world’s first wearable computer (to beat roulette), and eventually shifted his sights to Wall Street, becoming the godfather of quantitative finance.
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