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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a book about randomness and uncertainty by epistemologist Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Taleb, bestselling author of Fooled by Randomness, treats uncertainty and randomness as a single idea. See Black swan theory for Taleb's definition of a Black swan.
The Black Swan had sold as many as 370,000 copies domestically by April 2008. It also spent 17 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list and was translated into 27 languages. The impressive...
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