Nassim Taleb

Self-organized criticality, the spontaneous development of systems to a critical state, is the first general theory of complex ...

The preeminent explicator of mathematical logic to non-mathematicians, John Allen Paulos is familiar to general readers not onl...

This book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today's most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal perspective...

The variety of experience available to medieval scholars and the vitality of medieval thought are both reflected in this collec...

Recent scientific advances have placed many traditional philosophical concepts under great stress. In this pathbreaking book, t...

This volume provides the definitive treatment of fortune's formula or the Kelly capital growth criterion as it is often called....

How do we know a cat is a cat? And why do we call it a cat? How much of our perception of things is based on cognitive ability,...

Today a brain scan reveals our thoughts and moods as clearly as an X-ray reveals our bones. We can actually observe a person’s ...

The world's top trader's reveal the secrets of their phenomenal success!

How do the world's most successful traders amass t...

". . . Nothing less than a major contribution to the scientific culture of this world." — The New York Times Book Review
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Short, sassy, and bold, Mean Genes uses a Darwinian lens to examine the issues that most deeply affect our lives: body image, m...

"A reader's first impression on leafing through this book is of the large number of graphs and diagrams, used to illustrate sha...

Now in paperback, “a compelling, accessible, and provocative piece of work that forces us to question many of our assumptions” ...

Aramaic is now recognised throughout the world as the language spoken by Christ and the Apostles. Contrary to popular belief, h...

An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of...

Recent military interventions gone wrong

It was an exclusive lunch at a high-end Manhattan restaurant on 7 March 2011. UN Se...

This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they’d had in school.

Outrageously funny, ...

This volume presents topics in probability theory covered during a first-year graduate course given at the Courant Institute of...

4th International Edition of Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes

It is widely held that Bayesian decision theory is the final word on how a rational person should make decisions. However, Leon...