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Ed Thorp's "Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One" is one of the best books ever written about quant trading...despite not being about quant trading.

[hchz]

The guy whose math provided the nucleus of RenTech and the guy who invented the game of life wrote this:

https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Ways-Your-Mathematical-Plays/...

Vol. 4 begins with the study of the solitaire game that is on every Cracker Barrel table.