Books Recommended By Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an American author who spent more than two decades as a risk trader before becoming a researcher in philosophical, mathematical and practical problems.

Nassim Taleb is the author of The Incerto, a five volume philosophical essay on uncertainty published between 2001 and 2018, it is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand.

Here are the books recommendations from Nassim Taleb:

1. The Secret of Fatima
2. Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure
3. A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes
4. Probability Theory (Courant Lecture Notes)
5. The Opposing Shore
6. The (Mis)behavior of Markets
7. Social Cognition: Making Sense of People
8. Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People