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The Black Swan : the Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, David Chandler, Nassim N. Taleb is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

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The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don’t know, now with a new section called “On Robustness and Fragility.” 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

Who reads The Black Swan : the Impact of the Highly Improbable?

Author

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, David Chandler, Nassim N. Taleb

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679604181

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Computer Science, Fiction, History

Rating

3.89 / 5 (1,112 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14