THE EDGE THAT CLOSES
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THE EDGE THAT CLOSES Book 1
4 parts · 13 h 57 min
Cambridge, Los Angeles, Reno and Las Vegas, 1955 to 1966. A mathematics instructor with borrowed time on an IBM 704 establishes that blackjack, alone among the games on a casino floor, can be beaten by a player who keeps track of what has already been dealt.
THE EDGE THAT CLOSES Book 2
4 parts · 14 h 52 min
Cambridge, Winchester and Las Vegas, 1959 to 1969. A young mathematics instructor who has already shown in print that one casino game can be beaten takes the next problem to the one man in the building equipped to help him with it.
THE EDGE THAT CLOSES Book 3
4 parts · 14 h 4 min
Newport Beach and Princeton, 1964 to 1992. A mathematics professor who had already proved a casino game beatable turns the same apparatus on convertible bonds and warrants, and finds a way to hold two positions against each other so that the direction of the market stops mattering.
THE EDGE THAT CLOSES Book 4
4 parts · 14 h 45 min
Boston, Princeton and East Setauket, 1938 to 2024. James Simons wins a prize in geometry, builds a mathematics department on Long Island, breaks codes for a defense contractor, is fired for saying in print that he opposes the war, and opens a currency-trading office in a storefront beside a pizzeria.
THE EDGE THAT CLOSES Book 5
4 parts · 14 h 54 min
Budapest, New York and Chicago, 1944 to 2007. A Hungarian emigrant with almost no English learns to program on borrowed machine time, buys a seat on the American Stock Exchange, and begins quoting options out of a model instead of out of a feel for the crowd.
THE EDGE THAT CLOSES Book 6
4 parts · 14 h 11 min
Cambridge, Chicago, Westport and Miami, 1968 to 2024. A Harvard sophomore bolts a satellite dish to a dormitory roof, trades convertible bonds through the crash of October 1987, and at twenty-two opens a fund named for a fortress.