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The Pygmalion Syndrome, or How to Fall in Love with Your Model

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Mathematics Going Forward

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New areas of applications have opened up for mathematics, in economics, management and finance. Where will it stop? Can one expect a unified science of human behavior, similar to the Grand Unification of physics? I argue that these development relate more to engineering than to science, and to the current state of society than to any universal issues. Fortunately, mathematics does not need this kind of application to progress and carry some universal value by itself.

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  1. CEREMADE, Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France

    Ivar Ekeland

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  1. CMLA, École Normale Supérieure, Cachan CX, France

    Jean-Michel Morel

  2. Université Paris Cité and Sorbonne Université, CNRS, IMJ-PRG, F-75013, Paris, France

    Bernard Teissier

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Ekeland, I. (2023). The Pygmalion Syndrome, or How to Fall in Love with Your Model. In: Morel, JM., Teissier, B. (eds) Mathematics Going Forward . Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 2313. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12244-6_30

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