Odds against tomorrow /
While working for a mysterious financial consulting firm that offers insurance to corporations against impending catastrophic events, a gifted young mathematician becomes increasingly obsessed with doomsday scenarios until one of his actual worst-case scenarios unfolds in Manhattan.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2013.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | While working for a mysterious financial consulting firm that offers insurance to corporations against impending catastrophic events, a gifted young mathematician becomes increasingly obsessed with doomsday scenarios until one of his actual worst-case scenarios unfolds in Manhattan. |
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| Physical Description: | 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780374224240 0374224242 |