Nassim Nicholas TalebRecommended Books
Author, essayist, mathematical statistician, and risk analyst
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, and risk analyst. He is the author of the Incerto, a five-volume philosophical essay on uncertainty, which includes Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and Antifragile.
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“I love Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine author. His short story collection Ficciones, or Labyrinths, is amazing. Borges is probably still the most powerful author I have read who wasn’t just outright writing philosophy. There was philosophy in there with the scifi.”
“2/2 Great book; Ramanujan is a "mathematical tinkerer" vs Hardy who worked from rulebook. Invites tinkering on Mathematica @stephen_wolfram”
“Excited to find in my mailbox the book by @ErwanLeCorre from whom I've learned so much about natural fitness/#antifragility.”
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“I always always recommend the book by Anastassios Papoulis. 1) Never start with stats, start with probability. 2) Never read a stat textbook not written by a probabilist. Beware, there are plenty, plenty, plenty of stats books written by psychologists!”
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