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NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB​ RECOMMENDED READS

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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure by Cédric Villani
Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure by Cédric Villani
Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to Margaret Gibson by Lesley M. Smith
Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to Margaret Gibson by Lesley M. Smith
The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition by Umberto Eco
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition by Umberto Eco
Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos by Hardeep Singh Puri
Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos by Hardeep Singh Puri

The Secret of Fatima (Father Kevin Thrall #1) by Peter J. Tanous
The Secret of Fatima (Father Kevin Thrall #1) by Peter J. Tanous
Modelling Extremal Events: for Insurance and Finance by Paul Embrechts
Modelling Extremal Events: for Insurance and Finance by Paul Embrechts
The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion: Theory and Practice by Leonard C. Maclean
The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion: Theory and Practice by Leonard C. Maclean
Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes with Errata Sheet by Athanasios Papoulis
Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes with Errata Sheet by Athanasios Papoulis
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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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Thinking and Deciding by Jonathan Baron
The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century by Robert J. Shiller
The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century by Robert J. Shiller
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past by David Reich
​Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past by David Reich
The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb
The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb
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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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Thinking and Deciding by Jonathan Baron
The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology: Jerry A. Fodor: book cover
The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology by Jerry A. Fodor
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger: Peter Bevelin: book cover
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin
Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts: Terry Burnham: book cover
Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts by Terry Burnham
A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey
A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes: Thomas Cathcart: book cover
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart
Social Cognition: Ziva Kunda: book cover
Social Cognition by Ziva Kunda
The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity: Michael Marmot: book cover
The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity by Michael Marmot
Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People: Stephen Wolfram: book cover
Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People by Stephen Wolfram
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust: John Coates: book cover
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bustby John Coates
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Thinking and Deciding by Jonathan Baron
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars: Jim Paul: book cover
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars by Jim Paul
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War by Graham Robb
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War by Graham Robb
The Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs: Morton A. Meyers: book cover
Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs by Morton A. Meyers
Rational Decisions: Ken Binmore: book cover
Rational Decisions by Ken Binmore
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals: John N. Gray: book cover
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John N. Gray
Body by Science: A Research-Based Program for Strength Training, Body Building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week: John Little: book cover
Body by Science: A Research-Based Program for Strength Training, Body Building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week by John Little
Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning by A.D. Aleksandrov
Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning by A.D. Aleksandrov
Statistical Models: Theory and Practice: David A. Freedman: book cover
Statistical Models: Theory and Practice by David A. Freedman
Information: The New Language of Science: Hans Christian Von Baeyer: book cover
Information: The New Language of Science by Hans Christian Von Baeyer
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets: Benoît B. Mandelbrot: book cover
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets by Benoît B. Mandelbrot
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality: Per Bak: book cover
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality by Per Bak
Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World: Robert Nozick: book cover
Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World by Robert Nozick
Bull!: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004 by Maggie Mahar
Bull!: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004 by Maggie Mahar
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow
Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die: A Food Lover's Life List by Mimi Sheraton
1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die: A Food Lover's Life List by Mimi Sheraton
Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life by Emanuel Derman
Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life by Emanuel Derman
The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq
The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq
Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
Consciousness - An Introduction by Susan Blackmore
Consciousness - An Introduction by Susan Blackmore
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars by Jim Paul
A Guide To Econometrics by Peter E. Kennedy
The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets by Johannes Voit
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century by Robert J. Shiller
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets by Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart
Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People by Stephen Wolfram
Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems by Didier Sornette
No Bull: My Life in and Out of Markets by Michael Steinhardt
Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts by Terry Burnham
Bull!: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004 by Maggie Mahar
Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease by Gary Taubes
Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs by Morton A. Meyers
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War by Graham Robb
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin
Information: The New Language of Science by Hans Christian Von Baeyer
The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older by Elkhonon Goldberg
Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind by Robert Kurzban
Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself by Sheila Bair
Statistical Models: Theory and Practice by David A. Freedman
A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes by Peter Bevelin
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor by William Easterly
Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure by Cédric Villani
Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences by Jon Elster
The Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos by Hardeep Singh Puri
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bustby John Coates
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction by Trevor Hastie
Probability Theory by S.R.S. Varadhan
Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning by A.D. Aleksandrov
The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal by James Franklin
Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel
The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious by Timothy D. Wilson
The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology by Jerry A. Fodor
Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John N. Gray
The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy by Colin McGinn
I Think, Therefore I Laugh: The Flip Side of Philosophy by John Allen Paulos
A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey
Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World by Robert Nozick
Confessions of a Philosopher: A Personal Journey Through Western Philosophy from Plato to Popper by Bryan Magee
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition by Umberto Eco
Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to Margaret Gibson by Lesley M. Smith
The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb
The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity by Michael Marmot
Social Cognition by Ziva Kunda
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality by Per Bak
The Sunday Philosophy Club (Isabel Dalhousie, #1) by Alexander McCall Smith
Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences: Chaos, Fractals, Selforganization and Disorder: Concepts and Tools by Didier Sornette
Financial Derivatives: Pricing, Applications, and Mathematics by Jamil Baz
The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition by Norman Russell
The Blank Swan: The End of Probability by Elie Ayache
Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED by Richard Nikoley
Body by Science: A Research-Based Program for Strength Training, Body Building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week by John Little
Modern Aramaic Assyrinan/Syriac: Swadaya-english / Turyo-english / English-swadaya-turoy: Dicitonary and Phrasebook by Nicholas Awde
1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die: A Food Lover's Life List by Mimi Sheraton
Rational Decisions by Ken Binmore
Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past by David Reich
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese–American essayist, scholar, statistician, and former trader and risk analyst, whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. His 2007 book The Black Swan has been described by The Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II.
  • Known for Applied epistemology, antifragility, black swan theory
  • Influenced by ​Karl Popper, Benoit Mandelbrot, Daniel Kahneman, F.A. Hayek, Michel de Montaigne, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert A. Simon
  • 1960 births
  • ​20th-century Eastern Orthodox Christians
  • 21st-century American essayists
  • 21st-century American philosophers
  • 21st-century Eastern Orthodox Christians
  • 21st-century American male writers
  • American people of Lebanese descent
  • American people of Levantine-Eastern Orthodox Christian descent
  • Aphorists
  • Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
  • Epistemologists
  • Greek Orthodox Christians from Lebanon
  • Greek Orthodox Christians from the United States
  • Lebanese Christians
  • Lebanese emigrants to the United States
  • Lebanese philosophers
  • Monte Carlo methodologists
  • Non-interventionism
  • Paris Dauphine University alumni
  • People from Koura District
  • Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
  • University of Paris alumni
  • Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni
  • New England Complex Systems Institute
  • American male non-fiction writers
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