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The Black Swan. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a 2007 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is a former options trader. The book focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events—and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events, retrospectively.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Nassim Nicholas Taleb [a] ( / ˈtɑːləb /; alternatively Nessim or Nissim; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. [1] [2] His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty .
Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb published on November 27, 2012, by Random House in the United States and Penguin in the United Kingdom. This book builds upon ideas from his previous works including Fooled by Randomness (2001), The Black Swan (2007–2010), and The Bed of Procrustes (2010–2016 ...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of best-selling book The Black Swan, correctly predicted the 2008 financial crash but said "gloomy" times ahead for the U.S. economy are far more easy to spot.
Nassim Taleb, New York Times best-selling author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, stopped by The Motley Fool to discuss his newest book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from ...
Nassim Taleb, New York Times best-selling author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable stopped by The Motley Fool to discuss his newest book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from ...
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas (2010) [2007], The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, ISBN 978-0-14103459-1 Taleb, Nassim Nicholas (September 2008), "The Fourth Quadrant: A Map of the Limits of Statistics" , Third Culture , The Edge Foundation , retrieved 23 May 2012 .
Nassim Taleb, the New York Times best-selling author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, stopped by The Motley Fool to discuss his newest book, Antifragile: Things That Gain ...