Nassim Nicholas Taleb defines himself principally as a flaneur. He is a literary essayist, polymath scholar, and former Wall Street trader. He is known for his severe anti-academic bent and and his multidisciplinary approach to the role of human error and the “Black Swan”, high-impact rare event across philosophy (epistemology and logic), statistics, psychology (perception of uncertainty), finance, and historiography.

Taleb writes in an idiosyncratic style of philosophical tales by mixing narrative fiction, often semi-autobiographical, with erudition and scientific commentary. He is, among other books and scholarly papers, the author of the bestsellers The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness. His work has been translated into 27 languages (even French) – he is currently the most read living essayist.

Bibliography

• Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

External Links

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Home Page