Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,   1960- <br/><br/>
Antifragile :  things that gain from disorder / 
Nassim Nicholas Taleb. 
 - Random House Trade Paperback edition. 
 - xxi, 519 pages :  illustrations ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2012"--Title page verso 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-504) and index. 
<br/><br/> Nassim Nicholas Taleb[a] (/ˈtɑːləb/; alternatively Nessim or Nissim; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist.[1][2] His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty.<br/><br/>Taleb is the author of the Incerto, a five-volume work on the nature of uncertainty published between 2001 and 2018 (notably, The Black Swan and Antifragile). He has taught at several universities, serving as a Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering since September 2008.[3][4] He has also been a practitioner of mathematical finance and is currently an adviser at Universa Investments. The Sunday Times described his 2007 book The Black Swan as one of the 12 most influential books since World War. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780812979688 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 0812979680 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013431100 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Uncertainty (Information theory)--Social aspects.<br/>Forecasting.<br/>Complexity (Philosophy)<br/>Incertidumbre (Teoría de la información) --Aspectos sociales <br/>Pronósticos<br/>Complejidad (Filosofía).
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Q 375  / T143a 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>155.2/4