Nassim Nicholas Taleb is Dean's Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the University of Massachusetts.
He has devoted his life to immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge. Part literary essayist, part empiricist, part no-nonsense mathematical trader, he is currently the Dean's Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
His last book, the international bestseller
Fooled by Randomness, has been published in eighteen languages.