1960–present · risk, probability, antifragility, epistemology
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, mathematical statistician, and former trader and risk analyst, whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. He is best known for his five-volume philosophical essay series Incerto, which includes The Black Swan, Antifragile, and Skin in the Game, exploring the profound impact of rare and unpredictable events and systems that benefit from disorder. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering of New York University.