I read this book ages ago. It's not a "how-to" manual, as some people here seem to think. It's a mathematical adventure, how his childhood lucky bet set him o

I read this book ages ago. It's not a "how-to" manual, as some people here seem to think. It's a mathematical adventure, how his childhood lucky bet set him on a particular obsession to see if such betting was amenable to mathematical analysis and prediction. I'll leave it up to you math experts to criticize the math in the book itself, but it was a really fun read even for someone like me, who can only do basic arithmetic. I guess that makes it sound like I'm easily impressed, but this is my way of saying it's also a good way to advocate the usefulness of math to people who don't see its real-world practical aspects.