TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
TI  - Black swan: the impact of the highly improbable
SN  - 9780141034591
U1  - 003.54 TAL 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Forecasting
KW  - Uncertainty (Information theory) -- Social aspects
N1  - Suggested by Prof. Diptiranjan Mahapatra; Applying theory from communication; 1 The apprenticeship of an empirical skeptic
N2  - 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
ER  -