Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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January 01, 1960
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Amioun, Lebanon
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Taleb was a pioneering trader of complex financial derivatives, and his first major book was a treatise for practitioners. He has since delved into some of the themes that he encountered in that "laboratory" to consider randomness, especially the the epistemology of chance events, more broadly, and his more recent books have sought to make connections between the financial and more general manifestations of these phenomena. He crosses genres by mixing fiction, memoir, and philosophical parables with traditional non-fiction style and references to both humanistic and scientific traditions. See Wikipedia for more details.
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb avg rating 3.65 — 1,976 ratings — published 2007 18 editions |
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb avg rating 3.94 — 1,036 ratings — published 2001 15 editions |
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Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options by Nassim Nicholas Taleb avg rating 3.70 — 23 ratings — published 1997 2 editions |
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The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, David Chandler avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007 |
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Talentidentification, -selection and -development by Nassim Nicholas Taleb avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2004 |
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"The observation of the numerous misfortunes that attend all conditions forbids us to grow insolent upon our present enjoyments, or to admire a man's happiness that may yet, in course of time, suffer change. For the uncertain future has yet to come, with all variety of future; and to him only to whom the divinity has [guaranteed] continued happiness until the end we may call happy."
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets)
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets)
"Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense"
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Things always become obvious after the fact"
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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