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Nassim Nicholas Taleb ((アラビア語:نسيم نيقولا نجيب طالب), alternatively ''Nessim ''or'' Nissim,'' born 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, and risk analyst,〔Berenson, Alex. "(A Year Later, Little Change on Wall St. )", ''The New York Times'' (2009-09-11): "Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a statistician, trader, and author, has argued for years that...."〕 whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. His 2007 book ''The Black Swan'' was described in a review by the ''Sunday Times'' as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II.〔Appleyard, Bryan. "(Books that helped to change the world )", ''The Sunday Times'' (2009-07-19). 〕 Taleb is a bestselling author,〔"(Hardcover Business Best Sellers )", ''New York Times'' (2008-11-02).〕〔 See also 〕 has been a professor at several universities, serving as Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering since September 2008, and as co-Editor in Chief of the academic journal, ''Risk and Decision Analysis'' since September 2014. He has also been a practitioner of mathematical finance, a hedge fund manager, a derivatives trader, and is currently a scientific adviser at Universa Investments. He criticized the risk management methods used by the finance industry and warned about financial crises, subsequently profiting from the late-2000s financial crisis.〔 He advocates what he calls a "black swan robust" society, meaning a society that can withstand difficult-to-predict events.〔 He proposes antifragility in systems, that is, an ability to benefit and grow from a certain class of random events, errors, and volatility as well as "convex tinkering" as a method of scientific discovery, by which he means that decentralized experimentation outperforms directed research.〔Derbyshire, J., & Wright, G. (2014). Preparing for the future: development of an ‘antifragile’methodology that complements scenario planning by omitting causation. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 82, 215-225.〕〔Mattos-Hall, J. A. (2014). Strategy Under Uncertainty: Open Innovation and Strategic Learning for the Iceland Ocean Cluster (Thesis)()〕 ==Early life and family background== Taleb was born in Amioun, Lebanon to Minerva Ghosn and Najib Taleb, a physician/oncologist and a researcher in anthropology. His parents were Greek Orthodox Lebanese with French citizenship, and he attended a French school there, the Grand Lycée Franco-Libanais.〔〔Wighton, David, 2008, "Lunch with the FT: Nassim Nicholas Taleb," ''Financial Times'' (online), March 28, 2008, see (), accessed 7 May 2015〕 His family saw its political prominence and wealth reduced by the Lebanese Civil War, which began in 1975. During the war, Taleb studied for several years in the basement of his family's home.〔Helmore, Edward, 2008, "Business and finance, The Observer profile:The new sage of Wall Street," at ''The Guardian'' (online), September 27, 2008, see (), accessed 7 May 2015.〕 Both sides of his family were prominent in the Lebanese Greek Orthodox Christian community. On his mother's side, his grandfather, Fouad Nicolas Ghosn, and his great-grandfather, Nicolas Ghosn, were both deputy prime ministers. His paternal grandfather was a supreme court judge; his great-great-great-great grandfather, Ibrahim Taleb, was a governor of the Ottoman semi-autonomous Mount Lebanon Governorate in 1861.〔AHMAD ABOU SAAD ( 1921- 1999), mou'jam asmaa' al ousar wal achkhas wa lamahat min tarikh al aailat. ( Dictionary of family names and persons and hints about family's history )-Third edition ( January 2003) ()〕 Taleb has described himself as Greek Orthodox Christian.〔Fooled by Randomness, p.57, https://books.google.com/books?id=DCqFYOrGyegC&printsec=frontcover&dq=fooled+by+randomness&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4YdQVcafG4algwSeioHYBQ&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=orthodox&f=false〕 The Taleb family Palazzo, built in 1860 by Florentine architects for his great-great-great-great grandfather, still stands in Amioun.〔Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Home Page, "The Taleb Palazzo in Amioun," at ''fooledbyrandomness.com'' (online), see (), accessed 9 May 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nassim Nicholas Taleb」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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