ISBN: | 978-5-5082-0523-2 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a literary/philosophical book by the epistemologist Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The book focuses on the extreme impact of certain kinds of rare and unpredictable events (outliers) and humans` tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events retrospectively. This theory has since become known as the black swan theory.