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The Enemy of Art Is the Enemy of Soccer: On Constraints, Thai Boxing, and Love Triangles

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In this chapter, we learn what art and soccer have in common, what Thai and Burmese boxing can teach us about constraints, what a famous Spanish painting can teach us about perspectives and triads, and why constraints are so important for our understanding of small social systems.

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  1. 1.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox.

  2. 2.

    https://brilliant.org/wiki/braess-paradox.

  3. 3.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/removing-roads-and-traffic-lights.

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    Is it a coincidence that this is the same as the lower bound of Miller’s “magical number”—seven plus or minus two (Miller, 1956)?

  5. 5.

    https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TriangleInequality.html.

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Neuman, Y. (2021). The Enemy of Art Is the Enemy of Soccer: On Constraints, Thai Boxing, and Love Triangles. In: How Small Social Systems Work. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82238-5_4

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