Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243).
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.
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