Nassim Taleb
Nassim Taleb is a distinguished Lebanese-American polymath, known for his profound contributions as an essayist, scholar, mathematical statistician, and his expertise as a former option trader and risk analyst, best recognized for his work on probability, uncertainty, and the unpredictability of markets.
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Invariances
Like a manual for a new regimen in philosophy. - Nassim Taleb
Robert Nozick
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Deep Learning
Very clear exposition, does the math without getting lost in the details. - Nassim Taleb
Ian Goodfellow
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Explaining Social Behavior
Simply the best: read it at least twice. - Nassim Taleb
Jon Elster
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Mean Genes
So readable as to perhaps set a standard. - Nassim Taleb
Terry Burnham
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A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes
It makes you both wiser and eager to reread Sherlock Holmes. - Nassim Taleb
Peter Bevelin
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The Blank Swan
I am relieved to finally find a book that deals with Black Swan Events in a new way. - Nassim Taleb
Elie Ayache
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Who We Are and How We Got Here
Finally, science enters historical fields. - Nassim Taleb
David Reich
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The Misbehavior of Markets
The deepest and most realistic finance book ever published. - Nassim Taleb
Benoit Mandelbrot
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Intellectuals in the Middle Ages
Excellent book. - Nassim Taleb
Jacques Le Goff
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The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
Excellent exposition of overcompensation. - Nassim Taleb
John Coates
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The Sunday Philosophy Club
I don't want to spoil the story but I felt that I was reading a detective story until I realized what it was... - Nassim Taleb
Alexander McCall Smith
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Kant and the Platypus
I was taken aback by the combination of depth and the vividness of the style. - Nassim Taleb
Umberto Eco
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Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes
I always always recommend [this book]. - Nassim Taleb
Athanasios Papoulis
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The Status Syndrome
Well written, humorous at times, and rigorous --it reads like a well-translated scientific paper. - Nassim Taleb
Michael Marmot
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The Science of Conjecture
Stands above, way above other books on the history and philosophy of probability. - Nassim Taleb
James Franklin
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I Think, Therefore I Laugh
Great refresher in Analytical Philosophy --maybe the best. - Nassim Taleb
John Allen Paulos
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Blueprint
Excited to get [this book] as I am trying to go deeper into the notion of fractal (multiscale) localism & see what's wrong w/my thesis - Nassim Taleb
Nicholas A. Christakis
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Mapping the Mind
Great reference book, very pedagogical. - Nassim Taleb
Rita Carter
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Bull by the Horns
The account of a person who says it the way it was. - Nassim Taleb
Sheila Bair
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Ficciones
How literature and philosophy can be saved by parables. - Nassim Taleb
Jorge Luis Borges
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The Blank Slate
A great exposition of modern scientific thinking and understanding of the nature of man. - Nassim Taleb
Steven Pinker
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The Bitcoin Standard
Bitcoin is an excellent idea. - Nassim Taleb
Saifedean Ammous
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Happy Accidents
Please Please READ This Book! Read it TWICE! - Nassim Taleb
Morton Meyers MD
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The Making of a Philosopher
A great book but I felt something cold inside of me while reading it. - Nassim Taleb
Colin McGinn
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Body by Science
I owe a lot to this book. - Nassim Taleb
John R. Little
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The Count of Monte Cristo
This treasure will prevent you from enjoying other novels. - Nassim Taleb
Alexandre Dumas
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Confessions of a Philosopher
[The author] was close enough to Popper to present us with his ideas first-hand. - Nassim Taleb
Bryan Magee
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Elements of Information Theory
The BEST book [on information theory]. - Nassim Taleb
Thomas M. Cover
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Adapt
A highly readable, even entertaining, argument against top-down design. - Nassim Taleb
Tim Harford
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The Practice of Natural Movement
Excited to find in my mailbox [this book]. - Nassim Taleb
Erwan Le Corre
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Seeking Wisdom
A wonderful book on wisdom and decision-making written by a wise decision-maker. - Nassim Taleb
Peter Bevelin
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A History of the Mind
Clarity, so rare, so prized... - Nassim Taleb
Nicholas Humphrey
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The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion
Finally, a compendium of the most rigorous research (gamblers ruin based) on risky decisions. - Nassim Taleb
Leonard C. MacLean
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The French Revolution and What Went Wrong
So much fun to read. The author, visibly writes with an attitude. - Nassim Taleb
Clarke Stephen
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The Wisdom Paradox
I am now spoiled; I need more essays by opinionated, original,and intellectual, contemporary scientists. - Nassim Taleb
Elkhonon Goldberg
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Bull!
[The author] had the courage to take a look at what was behind all of this religious belief in markets. - Nassim Taleb
Maggie Mahar
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Social Cognition
It is limpid, precise, illustrative, showing a wonderful clarity of mind. - Nassim Taleb
Ziva Kunda
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The Invisible Gorilla
The illusion of attention is one of the most important, surprising, and least known flaws in human thinking. This lucid book examines it in detail. - Nassim Taleb
Christopher F. Chabris
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1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die
This is THE reference book. - Nassim Taleb
Mimi Sheraton
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The Complete Guide to Fasting
An excellent book! - Nassim Taleb
Dr. Jason Fung
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Idea Makers
Excellent! Only read on mathematicians by insiders. - Nassim Taleb
Stephen Wolfram
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Zero to One
When a risk taker writes a book, read it. In the case of [this author], read it twice. Or, to be safe, three times. This is a classic. - Nassim Taleb
Peter Thiel
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The Dream of Reason
Deep, readable & investigative. - Nassim Taleb
Anthony Gottlieb
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Tartar Steppe
A masterpiece. - Nassim Taleb
Dino Buzzati
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The Opposing Shore
Once you enter it, you are stuck there. - Nassim Taleb
Julien Gracq
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The Elements of Statistical Learning
Very comprehensive, sufficiently technical to get most of the plumbing behind machine learning. - Nassim Taleb
Trevor Hastie
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Probability Theory
Gives a complete overview of the basis of probability theory with some grounding in measure theory, and presents the main proofs. - Nassim Taleb
S. R. S. Varadhan
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Birth of a Theorem
[The author] is playful in real life, his research is playful, and [this book] is playful. - Nassim Taleb
Cédric Villani
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Modern Aramaic-English/English-Modern Aramaic Dictionary & Phrasebook
Most excellent, except for very few and small mistakes. - Nassim Taleb
Nicholas Awde
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The Secret of Fatima
James Bond as a Catholic Priest. - Nassim Taleb
Peter J. Tanous
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Financial Derivatives
A condensed, but extremely deep , and complete exposition of the subject of theoretical finance. - Nassim Taleb
Jamil Baz
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Hopping over the Rabbit Hole
So gripping you can read it standing up. A must read. - Nassim Taleb
Anthony Scaramucci
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A New Kind of Science
Not a book, but a monument. - Nassim Taleb
Stephen Wolfram
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The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition
The most complete overview of theosis. - Nassim Taleb
Norman Russell
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Order without Design
It is a pleasure to read something by a person who knows his subject in so much depth. - Nassim Taleb
Alain Bertaud
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The Mind Doesn't Work That Way
Horribly written (that is Fodor's charm after all) but his argumentation is so ferocious that he ends up loud & clear. - Nassim Taleb
Jerry A. Fodor
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Modelling Extremal Events
The bible for the field. - Nassim Taleb
Paul Embrechts
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No Bull
The man is one of the greatest traders in history. There are a few jewels in there. - Nassim Taleb
Michael Steinhardt
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The Longevity Solution
Incredibly well made book. - Nassim Taleb
Dr. James DiNicolantonio
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Free The Animal
A charming primer on the paleo idea, with an illustration through the authors own life. I read it in one sitting. - Nassim Taleb
Richard Nikoley
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Perilous Interventions
Should be mandatory reading to every student and practitioner of foreign affairs. - Nassim Taleb
Hardeep Singh Puri
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Alchemy
Wonderfully applicable to about everything in life. Furthermore, it is funny as hell. - Nassim Taleb
Rory Sutherland
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Information
If you want an introduction to information theory, and, in a way, probability theory from the real front door, this is it. - Nassim Taleb
Hans Christian von Baeyer
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How Nature Works
Intuitive & makes you think of universal laws. - Nassim Taleb
Per Bak
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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...
Like a brief drink in an airplane lounge with someone funny, smart, witty, but not too funny. - Nassim Taleb
Thomas Cathcart
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Statistical Models
The best statistics book I've seen. - Nassim Taleb
David Freedman
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Thinking and Deciding
I am buying a second copy. - Nassim Taleb
Jonathan Baron
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The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets
Very useful bridge between physics methodologies and finance. - Nassim Taleb
Johannes Voit
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A Guide to Econometrics
The best intuition builder in both statitics and econometrics. - Nassim Taleb
Peter Kennedy
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Mathematics
Mathematicians should be using this book as a model for their own composition. - Nassim Taleb
A. D. Aleksandrov
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Good Calories, Bad Calories
Read it twice, once for the diet, once a a rich document in the history of science. - Nassim Taleb
Gary Taubes
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Consciousness
Comprehensive, clear, well written. - Nassim Taleb
Susan Blackmore
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
A landmark book in social thought, in the same league as The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. - Nassim Taleb
Daniel Kahneman
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The Discovery of France
An answer to so many questions. - Nassim Taleb
Graham Robb
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Models.Behaving.Badly.
Convincingly establishes the difference between model and theory and shows why attempts to model financial markets can never be genuinely scientific. - Nassim Taleb
Emanuel Derman
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Rational Decisions
Presents a comprehensive set of the principles and axioms behind neo-classical economics. - Nassim Taleb
Ken Binmore
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The Formula
[Approaches] the problem of randomness and success using the state of the art scientific arsenal we have. - Nassim Taleb
Albert-László Barabási
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The Dao of Capital
At last, a real book by a real risk-taking practitioner. - Nassim Taleb
Mark Spitznagel
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Scale
Will expand your thinking from three dimensions to four. - Nassim Taleb
Geoffrey West
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Market Wizards
Twenty years from now, [this book] will still be fresh. There is no other like it. - Nassim Taleb
Jack D. Schwager
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