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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an uncompromizing no-nonsense thinker for our times. He has spent his life immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and he has led three high-profile careers around his ideas, as a man of letters, as a businessman-trader, and as a university professor and researcher. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's School of Engineering. He is the author of the 4-volume INCERTO (Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes). Taleb refuses all awards and honours as they debase knowledge by turning it into competitive sports.
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- EditorePenguin
- Data di pubblicazione2011
- ISBN 10 0241954096
- ISBN 13 9780241954096
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- LinguaInglese
- Numero di pagine128
- Contatto del produttorenon disponibile
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