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Coolidge, Julian Lowell (1873 - 1954)

[Upon proving that the best betting strategy for "Gambler's Ruin" was to bet all on the first trial.]
It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.
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In H. Eves Return to Mathematical Circles, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1988.
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