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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a 2007 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is a former options trader. The book focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events—and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events, retrospectively. Taleb calls this the Black Swan theory.
Black Swan was presented in a sneak screening at the Telluride Film Festival on September 5, 2010. [40] It also had a Gala screening at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival later in the month. [41] [42] In October 2010, Black Swan was screened at the New Orleans Film Festival, [43] the Austin Film Festival, [44] and the BFI London Film ...
The Black Swan is a 1942 American swashbuckler Technicolor film directed by Henry King and starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara. [3] [4] It was based on the 1932 novel of the same title by Rafael Sabatini. Leon Shamroy won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color. This was the final film of silent film star Helene Costello.
The black swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird, a species of swan which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. Within Australia, the black swan is nomadic, with erratic migration patterns dependent on climatic conditions.
The Black Swan is a 1932 British historical adventure novel by the Anglo-Italian writer Rafael Sabatini. Like the author's earlier Captain Blood , it focuses on piracy in the seventeenth century Caribbean .
The Black Swan (German: Die Betrogene: Erzählung) is a German novella written by Thomas Mann, first published in 1954. [1] A period work, it takes place in Düsseldorf , Germany, in the mid-1920s. Plot summary
A black swan (Cygnus atratus) in Australia. The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight. The term is based on a Latin expression which presumed that black swans did ...
The Black Swan (Sabatini novel), a 1932 pirate adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini; The Black Swan, a 1954 short book by Thomas Mann; The Black Swan, a 1975 novel by Rachel Cosgrove Payes; Black Swan, a 1987 novella by Christopher Hope; The Black Swan, a 1990 novel by Philippa Carr, the 16th book of her fiction series Daughters of England