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Author Krumme, Coco, author.

Title Optimal illusions : the false promise of optimization / Coco Krumme.

Publication Info. New York : Riverhead Books, 2023.
1 hold on first copy returned of 2 copies

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - New Materials  510 KRUMME    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - New Materials  658.15 KRUMME    Check Shelf
Description 243 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Flatland revisited -- Leaving Las Vegas -- High desert church -- Metaphoric breakdown -- False gods -- The treachery of optimals -- After the gold rush -- Babylon.
Summary "How optimization took over the world and the urgent case for a new approach"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Engineering economy -- United States.
Technology -- Social aspects -- United States.
Mathematical optimization.
United States -- Social life and culture.
Other Form: Online version: Krumme, Coco. Optimal illusions New York : Riverhead Books, 2023 9780593331132 (DLC) 2023017872
ISBN 9780593331118 (hardcover)
0593331117 (hardcover)
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