Optimal illusions : the false promise of optimization
(2023)
By:
Krumme, Coco
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
658.15/KRUMME,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Riverhead Books, 2023
DESCRIPTION
243 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780593331118, 0593331117, 9780593331118
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Flatland revisited -- Leaving Las Vegas -- High desert church -- Metaphoric breakdown -- False gods -- The treachery of optimals -- After the gold rush -- Babylon
"How optimization took over the world and the urgent case for a new approach"--