The Sciences of the Artificial.

SIMON, Herbert A.

Item Number: 128477

Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press, 1969.

First edition of the Nobel Laureate’s landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Rare in the original jacket.

Herbert A. Simon's study of human psychology and engineering design "to show how empirical sciences of artificial systems are possible." He also "indicates how the sciences of the artificial are relevant to economics, management and administration, medicine, education, architecture, art, to all fields that create designs to perform tasks or fulfill goals and functions."