Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Also known as Nassim Taleb

Lebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American mathematician and author who has spent his career studying risk, probability, and trading in financial markets. His work matters because he has developed influential ideas about how to prepare for rare, unpredictable events and the limitations of traditional statistical models in understanding real-world uncertainty.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (/ˈtɑːləb/; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American New York University professor, essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty.

Taleb wrote Incerto , a five-volume work on the nature of uncertainty published between 2001 and 2018 which includes the notable volumes 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. He has also been a practitioner of mathematical finance and is currently an adviser at Universa Investments. The Sunday Times described his 2007 book The Black Swan as one of the 12 most influential books since World War II.