For the more modern development of the idea of risk, check out Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Bernstein (ISBN: 978-0-471-29563-1): * https:/

For the more modern development of the idea of risk, check out Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Bernstein (ISBN: 978-0-471-29563-1): * https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Against+the+Gods%3A+The+Remarkable+Story+of+Risk-p-9780471295631 https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Against+the+Gods%3A+The+Remarkab... > With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos theory. Along the way he demonstrates that understanding risk underlies everything from game theory to bridge-building to winemaking. * https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128429.Against_the_Gods https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128429.Against_the_Gods