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Nassim N Taleb’s review of A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes

5.0 out of 5 stars A Guide to Both Wisdom and Sherlock Holmes, September 5, 2013 By N N Taleb “Nassim N Taleb” This review is from: A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes (Kindle Edition) We Sherlock Holmes fans, readers, and secret imitators need a map. Here it is. Peter Bevelin is one of the […]

Nassim N Taleb’s review of The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal

The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal 5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable, August 31, 2013 (Review) By N N Taleb “Nassim N Taleb” This review is from: The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal (Paperback) As a practitioner of probability, I’ve read many book on the subject. Most are linear […]

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 […]

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 […]