Take it from a 91-year-old mathematician: Living a long, healthy life is like a game of probability. You want to "minimize the chance of really bad outcomes of one sort or another," Edward Thorp ...

The advantage in two-handed blackjack, long supposed to lie with Ihe dealer or the house, was converted recently to the profit of the player by EDWARD O. THORP,a young assistant professor in the ...

Maya Ajmera, President & CEO of Society for Science & the Public and Publisher of Science News, sat down to chat with Dr. Edward Thorp — a mathematics professor, inventor, entrepreneur ...

Think of a casino and what’s the first thing that you think of? Chances are that a roulette wheel was one of the first stereotypical images that popped into your head. The roulette wheel is part of ...