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HOME > LECTURES&EVENTS > SPEAKERS > Nassim Taleb
Tuesday 12th June 2007
- 7:30 pm
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is one of the most important public intellectuals currently writing. He is an essayist, philosopher of randomness, researcher, and practitioner of financial mathematics. As a pioneer of complex financial derivatives. he had a lengthy and successful career as a senior Wall Street trader, before he began his philosophical career as an epistemologist of chance, and focused on the development of his “black swan theory” of unexpected rare events. Taleb's literary approach is to provide a modern-day brand of philosophical tale by mixing narrative fiction, often semi-autobiographical, with scientific commentary in a style similar to Milan Kundera, Ismail Kadare, and Alain de Botton. Fortune Magazine called his previous book, Fooled by Randomness, one of the "smartest books of all time" – another critic opined “Had Nassim Taleb been born in any other period, he would have certainly been put to death."
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Events at The Academy:
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable [12th Jun 2007]
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