Nassim Nicholas Taleb\'s "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" is a book that examines the impact of rare and unpredictable events on our lives. Through a combination of philosophical musings and
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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.