Taleb,+Nassim+Nicholas

=Taleb, Nassim Nicholas=

toc Read here pertinent facts about someone whose work is critical to a proper comprehension of scale.

=Biography=

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) is a Lebanese American philosopher, essayist and practitioner of mathematical finance. He wrote the 2007 book The Black Swan.

See risk.

Taleb also is a leading popular interpreter of portions of Mandelbrot’s work on roughness.