It turns out you don’t need to be an idiot savant like Dustin Hoffman’s character in Rain Man, or an MIT mathematics prodigy in order to count cards. There’s a relatively simple approach that can give ...

Movie 21 – True story or fiction? The movie “21” was released on March 28th, 2008 and the movie is fact based on Ben Mezrich’s book “Bringing Down the House” which tells the true story of the real MIT ...

* Illustration: Jason Lee * Statistically speaking, you are doomed to lose at every game on the casino floor — unless, that is, you can count cards. At the blackjack table, speedy math skills can flip ...

Over at the Big Picture, Barry Ritholtz interviews Scott Patterson, the author of The Quants, a book on the math-driven traders who took over Wall Street. There's a great back and forth about Ed Thorp ...

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