Hints and tips:
...A lovely touch is Kahlen’s awkward inability to respond to the decorous flirtation of De Schinkel’s cousin and intended bride (Kristine Kujath Thorp)....
...Norwegian feature Sick of Myself is, as the title might suggest, a film in queasily bad taste: it comes as no surprise that it has had the thumbs-up from cinema’s “Pope of Trash”, John Waters....
...John von Neumann, the brilliant mathematician who laid down the foundations of game theory in the late 1920s, was a poker player....
...Last year, I was here and met with Ed Thorp and wrote about it for Lunch with the FT. He is regarded as the godfather of all quants....
...Similarly illuminating for investors is A Man for All Markets , by Edward Thorp, a mathematician who applied his skills, from Las Vegas to Wall Street, from the blackjack tables to the world of hedge funds...
...John Authers is the FT’s chief investment commentator Illustration by James Ferguson...
...Thorp for a piece that will appear in the Weekend FT....
...Then we come to A Man for All Markets by Ed Thorp. I treated him to Lunch with the FT back in January....
...Thorp It has been very gratifying to receive a warmly positive response to my Lunch with the FT with Ed Thorp, the man widely recognised as the first ever quant....
...“Our aim is to put ourselves out of business, to tidy the toys away,” says John Clarke, chief executive of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, the government body set up in 2005 to oversee the job....
...● Foresight Group has hired Mike Rand and Tom Thorp for its environmental team....
...is there much evidence that lessons have been learnt: even after the nuclear power programme was abandoned, taxpayers were subjected to the same story of delays, overruns and missed projections at the Thorp...
...John van Kuffeler’s track record is an object lesson in the power of the little black book....
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