The Black Swan

by Nassim Taleb

** [2/5]

This book is an exploration of outliers, or black swans. The author investigates the frequency of these unlikely events. I did not enjoy this book, although many of the arguments he used are true (gaussians are not as common as we would like to think) the ways he extends the theory to theology and other areas are stretched. The existence of black swans is clear, but after reading I am still not convinced that one should make decisions based only on this theory. Not recommended.

Advanced Calculus

by Taylor

*** [3/5]

I picked up this book to give me some additional background about mathematical analysis. I found it less helpful than expected. Although it does have some material it is not organized in a way that provide much value. In addition, it does not have the depth required to supplement an advanced analysis class.

Applied Probability

by Kenneth Lange

*** [3/5]

I bought this book to supplement a statistics course I was taking. I has good high level material about Markov processes, but is very light on how to build your own Markov models. A bit disappointing but a good introduction.

World without end

by Ken Follet

*** [3/5]