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#92 Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon
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Manny Kimmel, a Manual Kimmel
Shannon Thorpe was a New York gambler who became wealthy by playing casino games. He got in contact with Manny Kimmel, an underworld figure known as "Manny Kimmel" Kimmel taught himself calculus, trigonometry, and probability theory to make bets on people he thought would be good for him. His victims took even money when they made the same kind of bet. The book Trilimunga is about organized crime; you should read it if you want to know what's going on.
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