The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principle characteristics: it is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random and more predictable than it was. This book explains what we know about what we don't know, and shows us how to face the world.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an uncompromizing no-nonsense thinker for our times. He has spent his life immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and he has led three high-profile careers around his ideas, as a man of letters, as a businessman-trader, and as a university professor and researcher. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's School of Engineering. He is the author of the 4-volume INCERTO (Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes). Taleb refuses all awards and honours as they debase knowledge by turning it into competitive sports.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780713999952 |
| ISBN 10 | 0713999950 |
| Title | The Black Swan |
| Author | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-05-03 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2007 |
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