A young physicist named Ed Thorp first beat blackjack by inventing card counting, then took the same probability logic to ...

Edward K. Thorp, age 40, passed away peacefully February 19, 2011 after a long battle with Leukemia and complications from a Stem Cell Transplant. Beloved husband of 13 years to Kelly (Fitzpatrick).

Well, replace “physicist” with “blackjack player” and “Albert Einstein” with “ Ed Thorp ” and you’ll have some idea of what I witnessed last Saturday night at the Blackjack Ball in Las Vegas. I say ...

Ed Thorp used math to become the first person to beat the casinos at blackjack. Then he changed the way Wall Street thinks about investing. The House Always Wins. Then He Came Along RACHEL MARTIN, ...