"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
Thorp’s book, The Mathematics of Gambling, is apparently available online with permission of the author.
Thorp is of course the author of the classic book Beat the Dealer, to which an entire generation of card counters owe their heritage.
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