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Convex Optimization (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 364 ratings — published 2004
Introduction to Linear Optimization (Athena Scientific Series in Optimization and Neural Computation, 6)
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avg rating 4.06 — 87 ratings — published 1997
Numerical Optimization (Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering)
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avg rating 4.30 — 143 ratings — published 2000
Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 1,660 ratings — published 2023
Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity (Dover Books on Computer Science)
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avg rating 4.08 — 134 ratings — published 2012
Linear and Nonlinear Programming (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)
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avg rating 3.95 — 38 ratings — published 1984
Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 156 ratings — published 1989
Practical Methods of Optimization (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published 1981
Convex Analysis and Nonlinear Optimization: Theory and Examples (CMS Books in Mathematics)
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avg rating 4.44 — 9 ratings — published 2000
Optimization by Vector Space Methods (Wiley Professional)
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avg rating 4.55 — 40 ratings — published 1969
Nonlinear Programming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 37 ratings — published 1995
Robust Optimization (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 2009
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 1,437,999 ratings — published 2018
Convex Analysis and Optimization (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 2003
Linear Programming and Network Flows (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 66 ratings — published 1977
Combinatorial Optimization: Theory and Algorithms (Algorithms and Combinatorics)
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avg rating 4.28 — 18 ratings — published 2002
Linear Algebra and Optimization for Machine Learning: A Textbook (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 18 ratings — published
Convex Analysis (Princeton Landmarks in Mathematics and Physics)
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avg rating 4.34 — 29 ratings — published 1970
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 86,802 ratings — published 1984
Practical Optimization (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published 1982
The 4-Hour Workweek (ebook)
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avg rating 3.90 — 345,237 ratings — published 2007
An Introduction to Optimization (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 22 ratings — published 1995
Convex Optimization Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 12 ratings — published 2009
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 200,552 ratings — published 2016
Theory of Linear and Integer Programming (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 18 ratings — published 1986
A First Course in Combinatorial Optimization (Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics, Series Number 36)
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avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2004
How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 124 ratings — published 2004
A First Course in Optimization Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 40 ratings — published 1996
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 92,022 ratings — published 1990
Dynamic Programming And Optimal Control, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 33 ratings — published 1995
Multi-Objective Optimization using Evolutionary Algorithms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 24 ratings — published 2001
Multiple Criteria Optimization: Theory, Computation, and Application (Hardcover)
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avg rating 1.00 — 1 rating — published 1989
Multicriteria Optimization (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2000
Engineering Optimization: Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 27 ratings — published 1996
Convex Optimization Algorithms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 9 ratings — published
Optimization Over Integers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2005
Lectures on Convex Optimization (Springer Optimization and Its Applications, 137)
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avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published
Calculus of Variations (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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avg rating 4.17 — 86 ratings — published 1963
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 143,025 ratings — published 2021
Nonlinear Programming: Analysis and Methods (Dover Books on Computer Science)
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avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 1976
Algorithms for Optimization (Mit Press)
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avg rating 4.68 — 34 ratings — published
Maxima and Minima Without Calculus (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions)
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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 1981
Variational Principles in Dynamics and Quantum Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 10 ratings — published 2007
Combinatorial Optimization (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published 1995
Introduction to Mathematical Programming: Operations Research, Vol. 1 (Book & CD-ROM)
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avg rating 3.94 — 34 ratings — published 1991
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 240,226 ratings — published 2017
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 33,307 ratings — published 2018
High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 13,689 ratings — published 2017
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 247,454 ratings — published 1999
Integer Programming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 37 ratings — published 1998
“Data alone has no value—it’s just masses of numbers or words.”
― Total Value Optimization: Transforming Your Global Supply Chain Into a Competitive Weapon
― Total Value Optimization: Transforming Your Global Supply Chain Into a Competitive Weapon
“In his 2001 book, Economics as Religion, economist Robert Nelson recounted the ways in which economics came to operate in society with its own religion-like structure. Nelson argues that modern economics has operated in many ways as a secularized version of Protestant theology in which the primary evil is economics scarcity and in which deliverance from this evil (and the attainment of heaven on earth) will come through application of economic science to promote efficiency (and fairness) in production and distribution. In this worldview, economists, as technical advisors to governmental managers, serve as a new “scientific” priesthood effecting a secular salvation of human society through the application of constructivist reason, the sort of reasoning that seeks to deliberately design choices and institutions to generate what are perceived as “optimal” outcomes.
Here, then, within the very discipline to which Vernon Smith has devoted his life’s work, there seems to be a persistent tendency if not to outright materialism then to a reduction of human rationality within constructivist constraints. As Smith acknowledges, “predominantly, both economists and psychologists are reluctant to allow that naive and unsophisticated agents can achieve socially optimal ends without a comprehensive understanding of the whole, as well as their individual parts, implemented by deliberate action. There is no magic.”
― The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reflections on Faith, Science, and Economics
Here, then, within the very discipline to which Vernon Smith has devoted his life’s work, there seems to be a persistent tendency if not to outright materialism then to a reduction of human rationality within constructivist constraints. As Smith acknowledges, “predominantly, both economists and psychologists are reluctant to allow that naive and unsophisticated agents can achieve socially optimal ends without a comprehensive understanding of the whole, as well as their individual parts, implemented by deliberate action. There is no magic.”
― The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reflections on Faith, Science, and Economics
