Nassim Taleb
93 BOOKS

Nassim 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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The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the RenaissanceKant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and CognitionIntellectuals in the Middle AgesConfessions of a Philosopher: A Personal Journey Through Western Philosophy from Plato to PopperInvariances: The Structure of the Objective WorldA History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of ConsciousnessBull!: A History of the Boom, 1982-1999: What drove the Breakneck Market – and What Every Investor Needs to Know About Financial CyclesI Think, Therefore I LaughThe Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century PhilosophyMapping the Mind
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The Mind Doesn't Work That WayConsciousness: An IntroductionThe Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before PascalMathematics: Its Content, Methods and MeaningNo Bull: My Life In and Out of MarketsThe Statistical Mechanics of Financial MarketsThe Tartar SteppeA Guide to Econometrics – 4th EditionThe Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion: Theory and PracticeProbability Theory (Courant Lecture Notes)
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Modelling Extremal Events: for Insurance and Finance (Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability)A Few Lessons from Sherlock HolmesModern Aramaic-English/English-Modern Aramaic Dictionary & Phrasebook: Assyrian/SyriacModels.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in LifeBody by Science: A Research Based Program to Get the Results You Want in 12 Minutes a WeekThe Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and BustThe Opposing ShoreBull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from ItselfInformation: The New Language of ScienceFree The Animal: How To Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet
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Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable PeopleExplaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social SciencesThe Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World WarGood Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and DiseaseBirth of a Theorem: A Mathematical AdventureSeeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd EditionThe Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic TraditionStatistical Models: Theory and PracticeThe Secret of Fatima (Father Kevin Thrall Thrillers)Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos
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Thinking and DecidingThe Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows OlderThe Sunday Philosophy Club: An Isabel Dalhousie MysteryHow Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized CriticalitySocial Cognition: Making Sense of PeopleThe Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and LongevityThe Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the PoorProbability, Random Variables and Stochastic ProcessesWhy Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular MindHappy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs
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Financial Derivatives: Pricing, Applications, and MathematicsCritical Phenomena in Natural Sciences: Chaos, Fractals, Selforganization and Disorder: Concepts and Tools (Springer Series in Synergetics)The (Mis)behavior of MarketsThe Paradox of Choice: Why More Is LessStraw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other AnimalsMean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal InstinctsWhy Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial SystemsThe New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st CenturyStrangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive UnconsciousProbability, random variables, and stochastic processes
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Market WizardsWho We Are and How We Got HereThe Longevity SolutionThe Complete Guide to FastingThe Practice of Natural MovementBlueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good SocietyA New Kind of ScienceElements of Information Theory 2nd Edition (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing)Hopping over the Rabbit HoleScale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
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The French Revolution and What Went WrongDeep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)Order without Design: How Markets Shape CitiesThe Count of Monte CristoThe Elements of Statistical LearningRational DecisionsFiccionesThe Blank SwanPlato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .Happy Accidents
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Financial DerivativesMean GenesThe Blank Slate1,000 Foods To Eat Before You DieThinking, Fast and SlowThe FormulaThe Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial TurbulenceThe Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us (Chinese Edition)The Dao of CapitalAlchemy
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the FutureAdapt: Why Success Always Starts with FailureThe Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking