"Free Event" UCSB arts and lectures OCT 28 (Mon 8 pm) CAMPBELL HALL Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Best-selling Author of The Black Swan Lessons for Volatile Times “The hottest thinker in the world.” The Times (U.K.) “[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne.” The Wall Street Journal Nassim N. Taleb is a former derivatives trader who became a scholar and philosophical essayist in 2006. Although he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute, he self-funds his research and operates in the manner of independent scholars. Taleb is the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007) and Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012). His works focus on decision-making under uncertainty, as well as technical and philosophical problems with probability and metaprobability, in other words “what to do in a world we don’t understand.” Taleb will discuss his work on uncertainty, randomness and disorder. Books will be available for purchase and signing
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