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THE EDGE THAT CLOSES Book 2

By Miriam Halloran · 4 parts · 14 h 52 min · English

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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. Edward Thorp and Claude Shannon spend eight months in the basement of Shannon's house building a machine to predict roulette: a regulation wheel bought from Reno, twelve transistors in a package the size of a cigarette pack, switches worked by the toes of both shoes, and a speaker wire the thickness of a hair. In June 1961 they carry it into a Nevada casino, where the calculation works and the wire does not. Neither man publishes for five years, and by then the point has been made elsewhere. Covers Edward Thorp, Claude Shannon, MIT, and Bell Labs.

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  1. Part 01

    3:39:19

  2. Part 02

    3:45:16

  3. Part 03

    3:16:54

  4. Part 04

    4:10:07

Books in this series

  1. THE EDGE THAT CLOSES Book 1

    4 parts · 13 h 57 min

  2. THE EDGE THAT CLOSES Book 2

    4 parts · 14 h 52 min

  3. THE EDGE THAT CLOSES Book 3

    4 parts · 14 h 4 min

  4. THE EDGE THAT CLOSES Book 4

    4 parts · 14 h 45 min

  5. THE EDGE THAT CLOSES Book 5

    4 parts · 14 h 54 min

  6. THE EDGE THAT CLOSES Book 6

    4 parts · 14 h 11 min