Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
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Taleb in 2010 | |
Born | 12 September 1960 Amioun, Lebanon | (age 63)
Nationality | Lebanese and American |
Alma mater | |
Known for | Applied epistemology, antifragility, black swan theory, ludic fallacy, antilibrary |
Awards | Bruno Leoni Award, Wolfram Innovator Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Decision theory, risk, probability |
Institutions | New York University University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Thesis | The Microstructure of Dynamic Hedging (1998) |
Doctoral advisor | Hélyette Geman |
Website | fooledbyrandomness |
Nassim Nicholas Taleb[a] (/ˈtɑːləb/; alternatively Nessim or Nissim; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist.[1][2] His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty.
Taleb is the author of the Incerto, a five-volume work on the nature of uncertainty published between 2001 and 2018 (notably, 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.[3][4] He has also been a practitioner of mathematical finance, a hedge fund manager, and a derivatives trader, and was a scientific adviser at Universa Investments as of 2018.[5] The Sunday Times described his 2007 book The Black Swan as one of the 12 most influential books since World War II.[6]
Taleb criticized risk management methods used by the finance industry and warned about financial crises, subsequently profiting from the Black Monday in 1987 and late-2000s financial crisis.[7] He advocates what he calls a "black swan robust" society, meaning a society that can withstand difficult-to-predict events.[8] He proposes what he has termed "antifragility" in systems; that is, an ability to benefit and grow from a certain class of random events, errors, and volatility,[9][10] as well as "convex tinkering" as a method of scientific discovery, by which he means that decentralized experimentation outperforms directed research.[11]
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