Books and
Cooks West
May 2003
Against the Gods:
The Remarkable Story of Risk
by Peter L. Bernstein
Against the Gods:
The Remarkable Story of Risk
by Peter L. Bernstein
Kim's place
May 3 at 5:30 PM
Thai stew, salad, sesame bread, zinfadel wine, French silk pie
Our rating: 2.6 cups of tea!
From
Amazon
With 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 the way he demonstrates
that understanding risk underlies everything from game theory to
bridge-building to winemaking.
