books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, and former option trader and risk analyst, whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, and former option trader and risk analyst, whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.

books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Zero to One

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

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Seeking Wisdom

Seeking Wisdom

Peter Bevelin

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Good Calories, Bad Calories

Good Calories, Bad Calories

Gary Taubes

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This Explains Everything

This Explains Everything

John Brockman

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Bull!

Bull!

Maggie Mahar

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Elements of Information Theory

Elements of Information Theory

Thomas M. Cover

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The Paradox of Choice

The Paradox of Choice

Barry Schwartz

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Mathematics

Mathematics

A. D. Aleksandrov

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Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs

John Gray

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1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die

1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die

Mimi Sheraton

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A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes

A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes

Peter Bevelin

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A Guide to Econometrics

A Guide to Econometrics

Peter E. Kennedy

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Birth of a Theorem

Birth of a Theorem

Cédric Villani

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Bull by the Horns

Bull by the Horns

Sheila Bair

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Confessions of a Philosopher

Confessions of a Philosopher

Bryan Magee

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Consciousness

Consciousness

Susan Blackmore

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Explaining Social Behavior

Explaining Social Behavior

Jon Elster

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Financial Derivatives

Financial Derivatives

Jamil Baz & George Chacko

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Free The Animal

Free The Animal

Richard Nikoley

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Happy Accidents

Happy Accidents

Morton A. Meyers

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History of the Mind

History of the Mind

Nicholas Humphrey

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How Nature Works

How Nature Works

Per Bak

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I Think, Therefore I Laugh

I Think, Therefore I Laugh

John Allen Paulos

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Idea Makers

Idea Makers

Stephen Wolfram

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Information

Information

Hans Christian von Baeyer

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Intellectuals in the Middle Ages

Intellectuals in the Middle Ages

Jacques Le Goff

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Invariances

Invariances

Robert Nozick

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Kant and the Platypus

Kant and the Platypus

Umberto Eco

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Mapping the Mind

Mapping the Mind

Rita Carter

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Mean Genes

Mean Genes

Terry Burnham & Jay Phelan

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Modelling Extremal Events

Modelling Extremal Events

Paul Embrechts et al.

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Models. Behaving. Badly.

Models. Behaving. Badly.

Emanuel Derman

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Montaigne

Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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No Bull

No Bull

Michael Steinhardt

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Pagans & Christians

Pagans & Christians

Robin Lane Fox

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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar

Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein

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Probability Theory

Probability Theory

S.R.S. Varadhan

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Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes

Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes

Athanasios Papoulis

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Social Cognition

Social Cognition

Ziva Kunda

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Statistical Models

Statistical Models

David A. Freedman et al.

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The Misbehavior of Markets

The Misbehavior of Markets

Benoit B. Mandelbrot & Richard L. Hudson

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The Blank Swan

Elie Ayache

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The Discovery of France

The Discovery of France

Graham Robb

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The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition

The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition

Norman Russell

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The Dream of Reason

The Dream of Reason

Anthony Gottlieb

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The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

John Coates

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The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion

The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion

Leonard C. MacLean et al.

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The Making of a Philosopher

The Making of a Philosopher

Colin McGinn

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The Mind Doesn't Work That Way

The Mind Doesn't Work That Way

Jerry Fodor

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The New Financial Order

The New Financial Order

Robert J. Shiller

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The Opposing Shore

The Opposing Shore

Julien Gracq

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The Science of Conjecture

The Science of Conjecture

James Franklin

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The Secret of Fatima

The Secret of Fatima

Peter J. Tanous

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The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets

The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets

Johannes Voit

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The Status Syndrome

The Status Syndrome

Michael Marmot

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The Sunday Philosophy Club

The Sunday Philosophy Club

Alexander McCall Smith

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The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

Rory Sutherland

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The Tartar Steppe

The Tartar Steppe

Dino Buzzati

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The Tyranny of Experts

The Tyranny of Experts

William Easterly

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The Wisdom Paradox

The Wisdom Paradox

Elkhonon Goldberg

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Thinking and Deciding

Thinking and Deciding

Jonathan Baron

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Why Everyone Is a Hypocrite

Why Everyone Is a Hypocrite

Robert Kurzban

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Why Stock Markets Crash

Why Stock Markets Crash

Didier Sornette

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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

A.J. Jacobs