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Nassim Nicholas Taleb; 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, and uncertainty. He is better known for his books "The Black Swan" and "Antifragile".

  1. 1Cover of The Tartar Steppe
  2. 2Cover of The Opposing Shore
  3. 3Cover of Fooled by Randomness
  4. 4Cover of Skin in the Game
  5. 5Cover of Zero to One

    Zero to One

    Peter Thiel · 2001 · 2 lists

  6. 6Cover of 1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die
  7. 7Cover of A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes
  8. 8Cover of A Guide to Econometrics
  9. 9Cover of Antifragile
  10. 10Cover of Birth of a Theorem
  11. 11Cover of Bull by the Horns
  12. 12Cover of Bull!

    Bull!

    Maggie Mahar · 1988 · 1 list

  13. 13Cover of Confessions of a Philosopher
  14. 14Cover of Consciousness
  15. 15Cover of Deep Learning

    Deep Learning

    Ian Goodfellow · 2016 · 1 list

  16. 16Cover of Elements of Information Theory
  17. 17Cover of Explaining Social Behavior
  18. 18Cover of Financial Derivatives
  19. 19Cover of Free The Animal
  20. 20Cover of Good Calories, Bad Calories
  21. 21Cover of Happy Accidents
  22. 22Cover of History of the Mind
  23. 23Cover of How Nature Works

    How Nature Works

    Per Bak · 1996 · 1 list

  24. 24Cover of I Think, Therefore I Laugh
  25. 25Cover of Idea Makers

    Idea Makers

    Stephen Wolfram · 2016 · 1 list

  26. 26Cover of Information
  27. 27Cover of Intellectuals in the Middle Ages
  28. 28Cover of Invariances

    Invariances

    Robert Nozick · 1982 · 1 list

  29. 29Cover of Kant and the Platypus
  30. 30Cover of Mapping the Mind

    Mapping the Mind

    Rita Carter · 1993 · 1 list

  31. 31Cover of Mathematics
  32. 32Cover of Mean Genes
  33. 33Cover of Modelling Extremal Events
  34. 34Cover of Models. Behaving. Badly.
  35. 35Cover of Montaigne
  36. 36Cover of No Bull

    No Bull

    Michael Steinhardt · 2001 · 1 list

  37. 37Cover of Pagans & Christians
  38. 38Cover of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar
  39. 39Cover of Probability Theory
  40. 40Cover of Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes
  41. 41Cover of Scale

    Scale

    Geoffrey West · 1955 · 1 list

  42. 42Cover of Seeking Wisdom

    Seeking Wisdom

    Peter Bevelin · 2007 · 1 list

  43. 43Cover of Social Cognition

    Social Cognition

    Ziva Kunda · 1984 · 1 list

  44. 44Cover of Statistical Models
  45. 45Cover of Straw Dogs

    Straw Dogs

    John Gray · 2003 · 1 list

  46. 46Cover of The Bed of Procrustes
  47. 47Cover of The Black Swan
  48. 48Cover of The Blank Swan

    The Blank Swan

    Elie Ayache · 2010 · 1 list

  49. 49Cover of The Discovery of France
  50. 50Cover of The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition
  51. 51Cover of The Dream of Reason
  52. 52Cover of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
  53. 53Cover of The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion
  54. 54Cover of The Making of a Philosopher
  55. 55Cover of The Mind Doesn't Work That Way
  56. 56Cover of The Misbehavior of Markets
  57. 57Cover of The New Financial Order
  58. 58Cover of The Paradox of Choice
  59. 59Cover of The Science of Conjecture
  60. 60Cover of The Secret of Fatima
  61. 61Cover of The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets
  62. 62Cover of The Status Syndrome
  63. 63Cover of The Sunday Philosophy Club
  64. 64Cover of The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
  65. 65Cover of The Tyranny of Experts
  66. 66Cover of The Wisdom Paradox
  67. 67Cover of Thinking and Deciding
  68. 68Cover of This Explains Everything
  69. 69Cover of Why Everyone Is a Hypocrite
  70. 70Cover of Why Stock Markets Crash