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 com...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.