The Black Swan The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb -...

Author: نسيم نقولا طالب (Author)

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A fascinating study of how we are regularly taken for suckers by the unexpected ― Guardian Like the conversation of a raconteur ... hugely enjoyable - compelling ― Financial Times It has altered modern thinking ― The Times Confirms his status as a guru for every would-be Damien Hirst, George Soros and aspirant despot ― Sunday Times The Black Swan changed my view of how the world works -- Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow Great fun... brash, stubborn, entertaining, opinionated, curious, cajoling -- Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics The most prophetic voice of all ― GQ

About the Author

Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent twenty-one years as a risk taker before becoming a researcher in philosophical, mathematical, and (mostly) practical problems with probability. Although he spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafes across the planet, he is currently Distinguished Professor at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering but self-funds his own research. His books, Antifragile, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes and Fooled by Randomness (part of a multi-volume collection called Incerto, Latin for uncertainty), have been translated into thirty-seven languages. Taleb has authored more than fifty scholarly papers as backup to Incerto, ranging from international affairs and risk management to statistical physics. He refuses all awards and honours as they debase knowledge by turning it into competitive sports.