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'''Richard Arnold Epstein''' (born March 5, 1927, [[Los Angeles]]), also known under the pseudonym '''E. P. Stein''', is an American [[game theory|game theorist]].

==Education==
He obtained his A.B. degree from [[UCLA]] in 1948. He then pursued graduate studies at the [[University of California Berkeley]]. He received his doctorate in [[physics]], on the [[Max Born|Born]] formalization of isochromatic lines, in 1961, from the [[University of Barcelona]].<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1109/TSET.1964.4335592 | title = Contributors | journal = IEEE Transactions on Space Electronics and Telemetry | volume = 10 | pages = 47 | year = 1964 | pmid = | pmc = }}</ref>

==Career==
He then shifted from [[spectroscopy]] to space communications, and worked for eighteen years as an electronics and communications engineer for various U.S. space and missile programs. He was variously employed by [[Parsons-Aerojet Company]] at [[Cape Canaveral]], [[Glenn L. Martin Company]], [[TRW Inc.|TRW Space Technology Laboratories]], the [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]], and [[Hughes Aircraft|Hughes Aircraft Space Systems Division]]. Epstein has numerous technical publications in the areas of [[probability theory]], [[statistics]], [[game theory]], and [[Outer space|space]] [[Telecommunication|communication]]s. In 1956, he was elected to member of the [[IEEE]].

==Achievements==
''The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic'' ranks as the most popular of Epstein's technical books. He served as a consultant to public and private [[gambling]] [[casino]]s in [[Greece]] and in [[Macao]], and he has testified on technical aspects of gambling in several court cases.

Under the pseudonym "E. P. Stein", he authored various popular works of fiction as well as historic and non-fictional books, and writes for TV and motion pictures.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamblingtheory.net/index.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=August 19, 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819095601/http://www.gamblingtheory.net/index.html |archivedate=August 19, 2013 }}</ref>

==Gambling theorist==

Never Split Tens!, a novel based on the life of pioneering blackjack game theorist [[Edward O. Thorp]] by gambling writer [[Les Golden]], was published in 2017 by Springer and includes an extensive discussion of Epstein’s analysis of strategies for blackjack that he developed in the 1950’s, independently of.Thorp.

==Books by Epstein==
* Richard A. Epstein, ''The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic'' (revised edition), Academic Press, 1995, {{ISBN|0-12-240761-X}}. (Second edition), Academic Press, 2009, {{ISBN|0-12-374940-9}}.

==Selected journal publications by Epstein==
* Richard A. Epstein, "An automatic synchronization technique," ''IEEE Transactions on Communication Technology,'' '''Vol. 13'''(4), pp. 547–550, 1965.
* Richard A. Epstein, "Relative coverage of large ground antennas," ''IEEE Transactions on Space Electronics and Telemetry,'' '''Vol. 10'''(1), pp. 31–83, 1964.

== Popular works under the pseudonym E. P. Stein ==
* [[Anna Kashfi|Anna K. Brando]] and E. P. Stein, ''[[Marlon Brando|Brando]] for Breakfast'', Berkley Pub Group, 1980, {{ISBN|0-425-04698-2}}.
* E. P. Stein, ''Flight of the [[Vin Fiz]],'' Arbor House, 1985, {{ISBN|0-87795-672-3}}.

==See also==
*[[Subtract a square]], a mathematical game invented by Epstein

==Notes==
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==References==
* P. Green Jr., "Review of 'The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic' (Epstein, R. A.; 1967)," ''IEEE Transactions on Information Theory'', '''Vol. 15'''(5), pp. 637–638, 1969.
* [[Richard W. Hamming]], "Games of Chance. (Book Reviews: The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic)," ''Science'', '''Vol. 161'''(3844), pp. 878, 1968.

==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130819095601/http://www.gamblingtheory.net/index.html Richard Epstein's Home Page (Archived as of 2013)]
*[http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookreview.cws_home/673901/review Epstein's gambling book reviews]
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