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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist.
* He is the author of the Incerto, a five-volume philosophical essay on uncertainty published between 2001 and 2018.
* His best-known books are The Black Swan (2007) and Antifragile (2012).
* Taleb is known for his work on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.
* He has been a practitioner of mathematical finance, a hedge fund manager, and a derivatives trader.
* He is a scientific adviser at Universa Investments.
* Taleb considers himself less a businessman than an epistemologist of randomness, and says that he used trading to attain independence and freedom from authority.
* He was a pioneer of tail risk hedging (now sometimes called "black swan protection"), which is intended to mitigate investors' exposure to extreme market moves.
* Taleb is a controversial figure, and his work has been criticized by some for being too pessimistic and for lacking empirical support. However, he is also widely respected for his insights into the nature of uncertainty and risk.