The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable
Nicholas Taleb, Nassim
The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable - London Penguin Books Ltd. 2010 - xxxiii, 444 p.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb's phenomenal international bestseller The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertainty. What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? What can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us about probability? Why should you never run for a train or read a newspaper? This book is all about Black Swans: the random events that underlie our lives, from bestsellers to world disasters.
9780141034591
Uncertainty - Information theory
Forecasting
003.54 / NIC
The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable - London Penguin Books Ltd. 2010 - xxxiii, 444 p.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb's phenomenal international bestseller The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertainty. What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? What can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us about probability? Why should you never run for a train or read a newspaper? This book is all about Black Swans: the random events that underlie our lives, from bestsellers to world disasters.
9780141034591
Uncertainty - Information theory
Forecasting
003.54 / NIC