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

Zero to One

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Seeking Wisdom

Seeking Wisdom

Peter Bevelin

Scale

Scale

Geoffrey West

Good Calories, Bad Calories

Good Calories, Bad Calories

Gary Taubes

Deep Learning

Deep Learning

Ian Goodfellow

This Explains Everything

This Explains Everything

John Brockman

The Paradox of Choice

The Paradox of Choice

Barry Schwartz

The Misbehavior of Markets

The Misbehavior of Markets

Benoit B. Mandelbrot & Richard L. Hudson

Mathematics

Mathematics

A. D. Aleksandrov

Bull!

Bull!

Maggie Mahar

A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes

A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes

Peter Bevelin

Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs

John Gray

Elements of Information Theory

Elements of Information Theory

Thomas M. Cover

Explaining Social Behavior

Explaining Social Behavior

Jon Elster

Birth of a Theorem

Birth of a Theorem

Cédric Villani

History of the Mind

History of the Mind

Nicholas Humphrey

Information

Information

Hans Christian von Baeyer

The Blank Swan

Elie Ayache

The Tyranny of Experts

The Tyranny of Experts

William Easterly

Models. Behaving. Badly.

Models. Behaving. Badly.

Emanuel Derman

The Sunday Philosophy Club

The Sunday Philosophy Club

Alexander McCall Smith

I Think, Therefore I Laugh

I Think, Therefore I Laugh

John Allen Paulos

Probability Theory

Probability Theory

S.R.S. Varadhan

Mapping the Mind

Mapping the Mind

Rita Carter

Intellectuals in the Middle Ages

Intellectuals in the Middle Ages

Jacques Le Goff

The Tartar Steppe

The Tartar Steppe

Dino Buzzati

1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die

1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die

Mimi Sheraton

Financial Derivatives

Financial Derivatives

Jamil Baz & George Chacko

The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets

The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets

Johannes Voit

No Bull

No Bull

Michael Steinhardt

Pagans & Christians

Pagans & Christians

Robin Lane Fox

Kant and the Platypus

Kant and the Platypus

Umberto Eco

The Dream of Reason

The Dream of Reason

Anthony Gottlieb

Happy Accidents

Happy Accidents

Morton A. Meyers

A Guide to Econometrics

A Guide to Econometrics

Peter E. Kennedy

Statistical Models

Statistical Models

David A. Freedman et al.

Social Cognition

Social Cognition

Ziva Kunda

The Making of a Philosopher

The Making of a Philosopher

Colin McGinn

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

John Coates

The Science of Conjecture

The Science of Conjecture

James Franklin

Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes

Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes

Athanasios Papoulis

How Nature Works

How Nature Works

Per Bak

Bull by the Horns

Bull by the Horns

Sheila Bair

The Status Syndrome

The Status Syndrome

Michael Marmot

Consciousness

Consciousness

Susan Blackmore

The Opposing Shore

The Opposing Shore

Julien Gracq

The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

Rory Sutherland

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar

Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein

Montaigne

Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

Why Everyone Is a Hypocrite

Why Everyone Is a Hypocrite

Robert Kurzban

Mean Genes

Mean Genes

Terry Burnham & Jay Phelan

The Mind Doesn't Work That Way

The Mind Doesn't Work That Way

Jerry Fodor

The New Financial Order

The New Financial Order

Robert J. Shiller

Idea Makers

Idea Makers

Stephen Wolfram

Modelling Extremal Events

Modelling Extremal Events

Paul Embrechts et al.

The Wisdom Paradox

The Wisdom Paradox

Elkhonon Goldberg

The Discovery of France

The Discovery of France

Graham Robb

Thinking and Deciding

Thinking and Deciding

Jonathan Baron

The Secret of Fatima

The Secret of Fatima

Peter J. Tanous

The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion

The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion

Leonard C. MacLean et al.

Confessions of a Philosopher

Confessions of a Philosopher

Bryan Magee

The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition

The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition

Norman Russell

Invariances

Invariances

Robert Nozick

Why Stock Markets Crash

Why Stock Markets Crash

Didier Sornette

Free The Animal

Free The Animal

Richard Nikoley

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Zero to One

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