The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable / Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable / Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable / Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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New York : Random House, c2007.
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N003.54/13
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English
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xxviii, 366 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Pt. 1. Umberto Eco's antilibrary, or how we seek validation -- Ch. 1. The apprenticeship of an empirical skeptic -- Ch. 2. Yevgenia's black swan -- Ch. 3. The speculator and the prostitute -- Ch. 4. One thousand and one days, or how not to be a sucker -- Ch. 5. Confirmation shmonfirmation! -- Ch. 6....
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New York : Random House, c2007.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
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c2007.
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"A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans...
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The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable / Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-358) and index.
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c2007.
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1400063515 (hbk.)
9781400063512 (hbk.)
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003.54
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991022773319702626
