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Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Lebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)

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Trust only people who lose when they are wrong
Investors, executives, and readers of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s earlier risk books get a single filter for whose advice to follow after 2008.
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About Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American New York University professor, essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty.
Everything about Nassim Nicholas Taleb →- Occupation
- philosopher, essayist, mathematician, statistician
- Citizenship
- Lebanon, United States
- Born
- September 12, 1960
- Website
- https://fooledbyrandomness.com


