Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Nassim Nicholas Taleb has three distinct careers (literary, scientific, and business) built around what he calls "epistemic limitations and constraints" (probability, uncertainty and the fragility of human knowledge): 1) bestselling literary essayist, 2) university professor in risk engineering (Distinguished Professor level), scholar, epistemologist, philosopher of science (probability and statistics), and 3) senior Wall Street trader, hedge fund manager, and practitioner of mathematical finance.