The Black Swan (Taleb book)

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a book by the essayist, scholar, philosopher and statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It was released on April 17, 2007 by Random House. The book focuses on the extreme impact of certain kinds of rare and unpredictable events (outliers) and humans' tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events retrospectively. This theory has since become known as the black swan theory.

The Black Swan (Taleb book)

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a book by the essayist, scholar, philosopher and statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It was released on April 17, 2007 by Random House. The book focuses on the extreme impact of certain kinds of rare and unpredictable events (outliers) and humans' tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events retrospectively. This theory has since become known as the black swan theory.