Scientific Excellence in an Era of Collapse

When brilliant Elisha Segal, an astrophysicist just denied tenure, is recruited by Harmony—a fearsome Wall Street techno-trading firm—he enters a landscape of pure, crystallized greed. For a dreamy, good-natured young husband and father, the shift from the cosmic laws of the universe to the extraterrestrial vacuum of techno-trading is a descent into a modern Inferno. As the United States drifts toward civil strife and his own home country begins to implode, Elisha’s "trusting persona" spells tragedy.

The Algorithm Game is a character-driven dissection of how scientific genius is co-opted to fuel institutional rot. It is fervently realistic, technically precise, yet not neglecting the higher emotional and moral spheres. It asks the ultimate question of our age: In a system designed to win at any cost, what happens to the man who refuses to lose his soul?

As it was being written, just a couple of years ago, Wolf considered it dystopic; however, reality caught up, if not overtook it already.

Samuel Wolf focuses on rigorous forensic dissection of the modern human experience. Trained as a mathematician and with an international career in developing novel technologies, Wolf explores the friction between the emotional, the moral and the cold logic of global institutions.