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Optimal stopping is the science of serial monogamy. (Location 86)

behavioral economics (Location 138)

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When have you met enough people to know who your best match is? And what if acquiring the data costs you that very match? It seems the ultimate Catch-22 of the heart. As we have seen, this Catch-22, this angsty freshman cri de coeur, is what mathematicians call an “optimal stopping” problem, and it may actually have an answer: 37%. (Location 189)