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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable

โœ Scribed by Wolfgang Polasek

Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
70 KB
Volume
52
Category
Article
ISSN
0932-5026

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