Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American New York University professor, essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty.

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Elements of Information Theory 2nd Edition (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing)Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable PeopleIn Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our PresentProbability, random variables, and stochastic processesSUPER AGERSSafe HavenBlueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good SocietyThe Longevity SolutionThe Practice of Natural MovementWho We Are and How We Got Here
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The Complete Guide to FastingA New Kind of SciencePerilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of ChaosInformation: The New Language of ScienceIntellectuals in the Middle AgesThe Secret of Fatima (Father Kevin Thrall Thrillers)A Few Lessons from Sherlock HolmesBirth of a Theorem: A Mathematical AdventureThinking and DecidingZero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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PAGANS & CHRISTIANSBull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from ItselfGood Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and DiseaseThe Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic TraditionThe Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World WarThe Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows OlderModelling Extremal EventsThe New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st CenturyMean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal InstinctsWhy Everyone Is a Hypocrite
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MontaignePlato and a Platypus Walk into a BarThe Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make SenseThe Opposing ShoreConsciousness: An IntroductionThe Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and LongevityHow Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized CriticalityThe Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before PascalThe Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and BustThe Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy
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Social Cognition: Making Sense of PeopleStatistical ModelsA Guide to Econometrics – 4th EditionThe Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion: Theory and PracticeHappy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical BreakthroughsThe Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the RenaissanceMapping the MindProbability Theory (Courant Lecture Notes)I Think, Therefore I LaughThe Sunday Philosophy Club: An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery
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Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in LifeThe Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the PoorA History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of ConsciousnessExplaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social SciencesSocrates in Love: The Making of a PhilosopherNapoleon The GreatAlchemyBrazilian Derivatives and Securities: Pricing and Risk Management of FX and Interest-Rate Portfolios for Local and Global MarketsConfessions of a Philosopher: A Personal Journey Through Western Philosophy from Plato to PopperThe Mind Doesn't Work That Way
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The Blank SwanKant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and CognitionNo Bull: My Life In and Out of MarketsThe Statistical Mechanics of Financial MarketsFinancial Derivatives: Pricing, Applications, and Mathematics1,000 Foods To Eat Before You DieThe Tartar SteppeThe Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern PhilosophyPredictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our DecisionsSeeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition
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Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and CompaniesDeep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)This Explains EverythingStraw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other AnimalsBull!: A History of the Boom, 1982-1999: What drove the Breakneck Market – and What Every Investor Needs to Know About Financial CyclesMathematics: Its Content, Methods and MeaningThe Misbehavior of MarketsThe Paradox of Choice: Why More Is LessFree The Animal: How To Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo DietWhy Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
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Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World