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Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (Dover Books on Mathematics)

5.0 out of 5 stars The model book, May 8, 2013 By N N Taleb “Nassim N Taleb” This review is from: Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (Dover Books on Mathematics) (Paperback) There is something admirable about the school of the Russians: they are thinkers doing math, with remarkable clarity, minimal formalism, and total […]

N Taleb’s review of Models. Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life

Here is what I wrote in my endorsement: Emanuel Derman has written my kind of a book, an elegant combination of memoir, confession, and essay on ethics, philosophy of science and professional practice. He convincingly establishes the difference between model and theory and shows why attempts to model financial markets can never be genuinely scientific. […]

Junglies’ review of Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Amazon.com

Infuriating? The breakneck speed with which the reader engages the book reminds me of the scene in 2001 where the astronaught is propelled through the star gate. As he moves forward everything is changing around him and he is awestruck by the carnival of lights until he finds himself in a somewhat recognisable room but […]

The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick: Benoit Mandelbrot

NNT reviews The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific MaverickHatTip to Hristo Vassilev & Dave Lull “I have never done anything like others”, Mandelbrot once said. And indeed these memoirs show it. He really managed to do everything on his own terms. Everything. It was not easy for him, but he end up doing it as […]

AMAZON & THE TRUTHFULNESS of THE AMATEUR

AMAZON & THE TRUTHFULNESS of THE AMATEUR When The Black Swan came out, the first NYT reviewer Gregg Easterbrook, a professional journalist was clueless and had not read the book nor did he understand much of it… Same with other reviews by academics who skimmed the book and found some angle that links it to […]