Black swan: the impact of the highly improbable
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
Black swan: the impact of the highly improbable - 2nd ed. - London Penguin Books 2010 - xxxiii, 444 p. 20 cm
Suggested by Prof. Diptiranjan Mahapatra
Applying theory from communication; 1 The apprenticeship of an empirical skeptic;
What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why should you never run for a train or read a newspaper? What can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us about probability? This book is all
9780141034591
Forecasting
Uncertainty (Information theory) -- Social aspects
003.54 TAL
Black swan: the impact of the highly improbable - 2nd ed. - London Penguin Books 2010 - xxxiii, 444 p. 20 cm
Suggested by Prof. Diptiranjan Mahapatra
Applying theory from communication; 1 The apprenticeship of an empirical skeptic;
What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why should you never run for a train or read a newspaper? What can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us about probability? This book is all
9780141034591
Forecasting
Uncertainty (Information theory) -- Social aspects
003.54 TAL