Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering, NYU Tandon

New York University

1 standalone talk · 1 total lecture · 1h recorded

Computer Systems & Software

Standalone talks by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Self-contained public lectures, keynote addresses, and research seminars.

Antifragile: Convexity, Optionality, and Systems That Gain from Disorder

55:40

Systems & CS·Public Colloquium

Antifragile: Convexity, Optionality, and Systems That Gain from Disorder

Nassim Nicholas Taleb·New York University

Formalizes fragility and antifragility via Jensen's inequality and nonlinear concave/convex payoffs across financial tail risk, biology, and engineering.