Black swan : the impact of the highly improbable (Record no. 18214)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780713999952
Terms of availability hbk
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 003.54
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100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
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Title Black swan : the impact of the highly improbable
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Place of publication, distribution, etc London:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Penguin Books,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2007
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxviii, 366 p.;
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Dimensions 24 cm.
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Price amount 495.00
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own personal lives. A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principle characteristics: it is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random and more predictable than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/​11. And why do we always ignore the phenomenon of Black Swans until after they occur? As Nassim Nicholas Taleb reveals, we are hard-wired not to truly estimate risk, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the ‘impossible’. In this revelatory book, Taleb explains everything we know about what we don’t know, and shows us how to face the world.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Forecasting
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Uncertainty (Information theory) - Social aspects
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Probability
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          DAIICT DAIICT 2007-07-30 Baroda Book Corporation; Invoice #617; 23-7-2007 495.00 6 003.54 TAL 016695 2024-03-13 2024-02-28 Books

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