"The Quants" starts with stories about mathematically breaking games of chance, like blackjack and roulette, duplicating some of the stories of Bringing Down the House. Stories on this theme are mixed in throughout the book to illustrate the growth of applied mathematics beyond gambling on "games of chance" to betting on the market. The rest of the book is as expected. I enjoyed this book because of the good storytelling. One nit, and I've noticed this in many recent non-fiction books, is that parts are repeated. I can understand re-iterating a concept to ensure one learns, but not directly repeating the concept and the supporting stories. This appears to be a collection of essays that were forced into a book format, with some cleanup missed along the way.