Acknowledgments
A book like this is a labor of love. I would like to thank the authors of each of the chapters who were kind enough to explain their areas of research for a nonacademic audience, Dan Taylor and Bill Ziemba for clarifying my understanding of a number of issues, and Kevin Li and, Jon Mensing, and the other research assistants who labored long and hard summarizing academic articles and preparing bibliographies. I also would like to thank the editors at John Wiley & Sons for keeping me on track and, most importantly, my wife for sharing her computer with me during the creation of this book.
