Love Is a Problem of Knowledge.

Faced with the complicated problem of matching people, matchmakers over the last few centuries have sought for, experimented with, and embraced various intellectual tools that promised to help. This commentary on the preceding essays in the Focus section "It's a Match!" discusses the tools for match...

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Publicado en:Isis: A Journal of the History of Science in Society Vol. 112; no. 4; pp. 804 - 807
Autor principal: Bouk, Dan
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Chicago Press Dec2021
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