“Against the gods” is a beautiful narrative on the history of risk management. Peter L Bernstein , the author of the book has a done a terrific work of narrating the evolution of risk measurement. The book is divided in to 5 periods where the story of risk is presented. The five demarcated periods are Uptil 1200 ,1200-1700,1700-1900,1900-1960,Post 1960. In each of these periods, the author talks about various personalities involved.

Can a number be illegal ?? Well, I came to know about it very recently , that in fact, a few numbers are illegal…!!! Via Illegal prime - Wikipedia: An illegal prime is a prime number that represents information forbidden to possess or distribute, because when interpreted a particular way, it describes a computer program which bypasses copyright protection schemes. Distribution of that program in the United States is illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

If you are planning to recruit a programmer for your firm, a quick way to filter out applicants is by asking a few basic questions, and this question falls in such a category of questions. Q) If I declare a character array char n[12] and code the line, strcpy(n,“radhakrishna”); what’s wrong with it ? A) character array is always NUL terminated. This means that strcpy writes a NUL at the 13th byte and you have no clue what you have over written on the 13th byte.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer, American mathematician

Anyone who regards games simply as games and takes work too seriously has grasped little of either.” German poet Heinrich Heine