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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, authored by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, is a New York Times bestseller that attempts to explain how certain things actually benefit from disorder, randomness, and risk. Summary of the Book Here is a book that encompasses philosophy, business, economics and mathematics. And Taleb combines this all to explain how ‘antifragile’ could be coined as an antonym for fragile. His insights about how such antifragile things can not only resist volatility and shock but also tend to become better and gain more from disorder and chaos. A brilliant and unusual book for those who seek more perspectives about the relationship between fragility, sensitivity, and convexity to disorder is attained by theorem, has mathematical evidence, and not merely by deriving from empirical data mining methods. About Nassim Nicholas Taleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a present-day thinker who has been prolifically writing about randomness, epistemology, uncertainty and probability. He is an international bestselling author and has been teaching on some of the most reputed universities across borders. Some of the most notable books penned by Taleb are Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, and Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.