Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Black Swan

The Impact of the Highly Improbable

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ein 'Black Swan' ist ein sehr unwahrscheinliches Ereignis mit drei Hauptcharakteristika: es ist nicht vorhersehbar, es hat massivste Auswirkungen, und es wird hinterher plötzlich als vorhersagbar und nicht überraschend dargestellt.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Trade Paperback
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 127mm x 194mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780141034591
• ISBN-10: 0141034599
• Artikelnr.: 23118294

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

A fascinating study of how we are regularly taken for suckers by the unexpected Guardian