Nassim Taleb Recommended Books

"I always always recommend [this book]." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Finally, science enters historical fields." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Incredibly well made book." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"An excellent book!" - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Excited to find in my mailbox [this book]." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Should be mandatory reading to every student and practitioner of foreign affairs." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Excited to get [this book] as I am trying to go deeper into the notion of fractal (multiscale) localism & see what's wrong w/my thesis" - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Excellent! Only read on mathematicians by insiders." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Not a book, but a monument." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"The BEST book [on information theory]." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"So gripping you can read it standing up. A must read." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Will expand your thinking from three dimensions to four." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"[The author] is playful in real life, his research is playful, and [this book] is playful." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"So much fun to read. The author, visibly writes with an attitude." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Very clear exposition, does the math without getting lost in the details." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"It is a pleasure to read something by a person who knows his subject in so much depth." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"This treasure will prevent you from enjoying other novels." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Very comprehensive, sufficiently technical to get most of the plumbing behind machine learning." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Presents a comprehensive set of the principles and axioms behind neo-classical economics." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"James Bond as a Catholic Priest." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"How literature and philosophy can be saved by parables." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Stands above, way above other books on the history and philosophy of probability." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Mathematicians should be using this book as a model for their own composition." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Gives a complete overview of the basis of probability theory with some grounding in measure theory, and presents the main proofs." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Convincingly establishes the difference between model and theory and shows why attempts to model financial markets can never be genuinely scientific." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"I owe a lot to this book." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Excellent exposition of overcompensation." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Once you enter it, you are stuck there." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"The account of a person who says it the way it was." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"If you want an introduction to information theory, and, in a way, probability theory from the real front door, this is it." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"A charming primer on the paleo idea, with an illustration through the authors own life. I read it in one sitting." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"I am relieved to finally find a book that deals with Black Swan Events in a new way." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Simply the best: read it at least twice." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"An answer to so many questions." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Read it twice, once for the diet, once a a rich document in the history of science." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Like a brief drink in an airplane lounge with someone funny, smart, witty, but not too funny." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"A wonderful book on wisdom and decision-making written by a wise decision-maker." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"The most complete overview of theosis." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"The best statistics book I've seen." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Please Please READ This Book! Read it TWICE!" - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"A condensed, but extremely deep , and complete exposition of the subject of theoretical finance." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"I am buying a second copy." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"I am now spoiled; I need more essays by opinionated, original,and intellectual, contemporary scientists." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"I don't want to spoil the story but I felt that I was reading a detective story until I realized what it was..." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Intuitive & makes you think of universal laws." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"It is limpid, precise, illustrative, showing a wonderful clarity of mind." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Well written, humorous at times, and rigorous --it reads like a well-translated scientific paper." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Deep, readable & investigative." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"I was taken aback by the combination of depth and the vividness of the style." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Excellent book." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"[The author] was close enough to Popper to present us with his ideas first-hand." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Like a manual for a new regimen in philosophy." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Clarity, so rare, so prized..." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"[The author] had the courage to take a look at what was behind all of this religious belief in markets." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Great refresher in Analytical Philosophy --maybe the best." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"A great book but I felt something cold inside of me while reading it." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Great reference book, very pedagogical." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Horribly written (that is Fodor's charm after all) but his argumentation is so ferocious that he ends up loud & clear." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Comprehensive, clear, well written." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"So readable as to perhaps set a standard." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"A great exposition of modern scientific thinking and understanding of the nature of man." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"The man is one of the greatest traders in history. There are a few jewels in there." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Very useful bridge between physics methodologies and finance." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"A masterpiece." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"The best intuition builder in both statitics and econometrics." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Finally, a compendium of the most rigorous research (gamblers ruin based) on risky decisions." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"This is THE reference book." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"The bible for the field." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"It makes you both wiser and eager to reread Sherlock Holmes." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Most excellent, except for very few and small mistakes." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"A landmark book in social thought, in the same league as The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"[Approaches] the problem of randomness and success using the state of the art scientific arsenal we have." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Bitcoin is an excellent idea." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"The deepest and most realistic finance book ever published." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Twenty years from now, [this book] will still be fresh. There is no other like it." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"The illusion of attention is one of the most important, surprising, and least known flaws in human thinking. This lucid book examines it in detail." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"At last, a real book by a real risk-taking practitioner." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"Wonderfully applicable to about everything in life. Furthermore, it is funny as hell." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"When a risk taker writes a book, read it. In the case of [this author], read it twice. Or, to be safe, three times. This is a classic." - Nassim Taleb (Source)

"A highly readable, even entertaining, argument against top-down design." - Nassim Taleb (Source)