Black Swan events are events that defy probability. They are things like wars, disease, and accidents that are highly unlikely but they happen and greatly change our lives and world. The library’s Check It Out podcast invited math faculty members Jerimi Walker and Mario Borha to discuss Nassim Taleb’s book The Black Swan. This is an interesting discussion about the unlikely things that happen all around us.
The audio of this event is available below:
Here are some additional resources on The Black Swan:
First, if you are interested in picking this up in library in the south suburbs of Chicago, here’s a link: The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb.
If you want to listen on the Web: ‘Black Swans’ and the Problems of Probability from NPR.
If you want more depth, you may want to listen to “Taleb on Black Swans, Fragility, and Mistakes from Econtalk.