Thorp's Era. ™ If you don't know, now we are living in 43th year of Thorp's era. This person had such a great influence on the blackjack and all the gambling industry, that I seriously consider that he is worth of setting up a monument while alive, by the way at the casino's expense. Being a young scientist, Edward O. Thorp regularly read mathematic journals. When he was a student, he was pressed…