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Fortune's Formula - The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street by William Poundstone
$40.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
In 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein's. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the science of ...Show more
How Do You Fight a Horse-Size Duck? by William Poundstone
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
In 2017 Tesla received half a million job applications. How do top companies choose which people to hire? It's through interviews asking uniquely demanding questions testing imagination, persistence, and creativity. This book explores the new world of interviewing at A-list employers. It will tell how n ...Show more
How to Predict Everything - The Formula Transforming What We Know about Life and the Universe by William Poundstone
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
How do you predict something that has never happened before? There's a useful calculation being employed by Wall Street, Silicon Valley and maths professors all over the world, and it predicts that the human species will become extinct in 760 years. Unfortunately, there is disagreement over how to apply ...Show more
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) by William Poundstone
$26.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Why do text messages cost money, while e-mails are free? Why do jars of peanut butter keep getting smaller in order to keep the price the 'same'?
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