Optimal illusions : the false promise of optimization /

Krumme, Coco

Optimal illusions : the false promise of optimization / Coco Krumme. - 243 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

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"--

9780593331118 (hardcover) 0593331117 (hardcover)

2023017871


Engineering economy--United States.
Economía industrial --Estados Unidos
Technology--Social aspects--United States.
Tecnología --Aspectos sociales --Estados Unidos
Mathematical optimization.
Optimización matemática

TA 177.4 / K94o 2023

658.15