Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (; born 12 September 1960) 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. Taleb wrote Incerto, a five-volume work on the nature of uncertainty published between 2001 and 2018 which includes the notable volumes The Black Swan and Antifragile. He has taught at several universities, serving as a Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering since September 2008.
Associated with Empirica LLC(founder) New York University Tandon School of Engineering(executive) Universa Investments(key person) Université libre de Bruxelles(executive)
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