Lebanese-American professor/author Nassim Taleb coined the term '(What colour/color What creature?)' referring to an unpredictable random event that has a vast societal/political/economic impact?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb (; , alternatively "Nessim "or" Nissim"; born 1960) is a Lebanese–American essayist, scholar, statistician, and former trader and risk analyst, whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. His 2007 book "The Black Swan" has been described by "The Sunday Times" as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II. Taleb is an author and has been a professor at several universities, serving as a Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering since September 2008. He has been co-editor-in-chief of the academic
Nassim Nicholas Taleb as well as "convex tinkering" as a method of scientific discovery, by which he means that decentralized experimentation outperforms directed research. Taleb was born in Amioun, Lebanon, to Minerva Ghosn and Nagib Taleb, a physician/oncologist and a researcher in anthropology. His parents were Greek Orthodox Lebanese of Antiochian Greek origin, holding French citizenship. His grandfather, Fouad Nicolas Ghosn, and his great-grandfather, Nicolas Ghosn, were both deputy prime ministers in the 1940s through the 1970s. His paternal grandfather Nassim Taleb was a supreme court judge and his great-great-great-great grandfather, Ibrahim Taleb (Nabbout), was a governor of Mount Lebanon in 1866. Taleb