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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) (alternative spellings of first name: Nessim or Nissim) is a literary essayist, epistemologist, polymathscholar of randomness and knowledge, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance. As a pioneer of complex financial derivatives, he had as a "day job" a lengthy senior trading and financial mathematics career in New York City's Wall Street firms, before he started a second career as a scholar in theepistemology of chance events and focus on... full article at wikipedia
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Created by Metaweb Oct 22, 2006
Last edited by shoshin Jul 1, 2008

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