Author of "The Black Swan
by Stephen Wolfram
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by Vijay Prashad
“This is an outstanding book on the side effects of interventionism, written in extremely elegant prose and with maximal clarity.”
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by Carl Jung
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by Peter Bevelin
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“Penguin UK asked Nassim to recommend five books that have informed him as a writer. He chose: [A History Of Private Life], Volumes I to V”
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by Nicholas Humphrey
“Clarity, so rare, so prized...”
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by Edward O. Thorp
“25 books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:23) A Man for All Markets by Edward O. Thorp”
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by Tim Harford
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by Cédric Villani
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by Maggie Mahar
“[The author] had the courage to take a look at what was behind all of this religious belief in markets.”
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by Jorge Luis Borges
“Penguin UK asked Nassim to recommend five books that have informed him as a writer. He chose: [Collected Fictions] by Jorge Luis Borges”
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by Bryan Magee
“[The author] was close enough to Popper to present us with his ideas first-hand.”
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by Susan Blackmore
“Comprehensive, clear, well written.”
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by Ian Goodfellow
“25 books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:2) Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville”
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by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Penguin UK asked Nassim to recommend five books that have informed him as a writer. He chose: [Demons] by Fyodor Dostoyevsky”
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by Thomas M. Cover
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by Michel de Montaigne
“his most mentioned books seem to be: 3. Essais by Michel de Montaigne”
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by Jorge Luis Borges
“his most mentioned books seem to be: 5. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges”
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by Jamil Baz & George Chacko
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by Gary Taubes
“25 books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:5) Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes”
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by John Allen Paulos
“Great refresher in Analytical Philosophy --maybe the best.”
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by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“his most mentioned books seem to be: 4. Letters from a Stoic by Seneca”
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by Rita Carter
“Great reference book, very pedagogical.”
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by Terry Burnham & Jay Phelan
“So readable as to perhaps set a standard.”
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by Michael Steinhardt
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by Dan Ariely
“25 books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:22) Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely”
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by S. R. S. Varadhan
“25 books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:9) Probability Theory (Courant Lecture Notes) by S. R. S. Varadhan”
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by Athanasios Papoulis
“25 books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:6) Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes by Athanasios Papoulis and S Pillai”
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by Mark Spitznagel
“Spencer gets it. (All explicitly in the book 'Safe Haven'.)”
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by Geoffrey West
“25 books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:18) Scale by Geoffrey West”
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by Vitaliy Katsenelson
“25 books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:14) Soul in the Game by Vitaliy Katsenelson”
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by David A. Freedman et al.
“25 books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:8) Statistical Models: Theory and Practice by David A. Freedman”
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by John Gray
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by Benoît B. Mandelbrot
“This book is highly rated and recommended by Taleb.”
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by Carlo M. Cipolla
“25 books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:13) The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlo M. Cipolla”
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by Michel de Montaigne
“Penguin UK asked Nassim to recommend five books that have informed him as a writer. He chose: [The Complete Essays] by Michel de Montaigne”
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by Alexandre Dumas
“his most mentioned books seem to be: 2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas”
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by Mark Spitznagel
“25 books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:12) The Dao of Capital by Mark Spitznagel”
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by David Graeber and David Wengrow
“25 books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:19) The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow”
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by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman
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by Albert-László Barabási
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by Stephen Clarke
“25 books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:20) The French Revolution and What Went Wrong by Stephen Clarke”
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by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
“25 books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:15) The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons”
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by Colin McGinn
“A great book but I felt something cold inside of me while reading it.”
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by Jerry Fodor
“Horribly written (that is Fodor's charm after all) but his argumentation is so ferocious that he ends up loud & clear.”
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by Julien Gracq
“Penguin UK asked Nassim to recommend five books that have informed him as a writer. He chose: [The Opposing Shore] by Julien Gracq”
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by Johannes Voit
“25 books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:10) The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets by Johannes Voit”
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by Dino Buzzati
“This book is highly rated and recommended by Taleb.”
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by Daniel Kahneman
“Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and”
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by John Brockman
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by Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan
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by David Reich
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