Optimal illusions: the false promise of optimization (Record no. 59548)
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| fixed length control field | 02083 a2200217 4500 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780593331118 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 658.15 KRU |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Krumme, Coco |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Optimal illusions: the false promise of optimization |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Riverhead Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2023. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 243p.: |
| Other physical details | hbk.: |
| Dimensions | 21cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | How optimization took over the world and the urgent case for a new approach<br/><br/>Optimization is the driving principle of our modern world. We now can manufacture, transport, and organize things more cheaply and faster than ever. Optimized models underlie everything from airline schedules to dating site matches. We strive for efficiency in our daily lives, obsessed with productivity and optimal performance. How did a mathematical concept take on such outsize cultural shape? And what is lost when efficiency is gained?<br/><br/>Optimal Illusions traces the fascinating history of optimization from its roots in America’s founding principles to its modern manifestations, found in colorful stories of oil tycoons, wildlife ecologists, Silicon Valley technologists, lifestyle gurus, sugar beet farmers, and poker players. Optimization is now deeply embedded in the technologies and assumptions that have come to comprise not only our material reality but what we make of it.<br/><br/>Coco Krumme’s work in mathematical modeling has made her acutely aware of optimization’s overreach. Streamlined systems are less resilient and more at risk of failure. They limit our options and narrow our perspectives. The malaise of living in an optimized society can feel profoundly inhumane. Optimal Illusions exposes the sizable bargains we have made in the name of optimization and asks us to consider what comes next.<br/><br/>https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670624/optimal-illusions-by-coco-krumme/ |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Business |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Personal Success |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Management |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Engineering Economy |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Mathematical optimization |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Technology Social aspects |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | General | IIT Gandhinagar | IIT Gandhinagar | 05/01/2024 | 34 | 2405.48 | 658.15 KRU | 033752 | 05/01/2024 | 2405.48 | Books |
