Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Arabic: نسيم نيقولا نجيب طالب‎, alternatively Nessim or Nissim, born 1960) is a Lebanese philosopher, essayist and practitioner of mathematical finance. He wrote the 2007 book The Black Swan, which a Sunday Times review described as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II. He is a bestselling author, and has been a professor at several universities, currently at Polytechnic Institute of New York University and Oxford University. He has also been a hedge fund manager and Wall Street trader, and is currently a scientific adviser at Universa Investments. He criticized the finance industry and warned about financial crises, subsequently making a fortune out of the financial crisis of 2007-2010. He advocates what he calls a "black swan robust" society, meaning a society that can withstand difficult-to-predict events. He favors "stochastic tinkering" as a method of scientific discovery, by which he means experimentation and fact-collecting instead of top-down directed research.