Szpiro, George
Summary: The author takes the general reader on a tour of the mathematical puzzles and paradoxes inherent in voting systems, such as the Alabama Paradox, in which an increase in the number of seats in the Congress could actually lead to a reduced number of representatives for a state, and the Condorcet Paradox, which demonstrates that the winner of elections featuring more than two candidates does not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2010
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Contents: Fit for a king -- What flies know and ants don't -- The forensic engineer -- An Oscar for the best script -- Geometry without Euclid -- From Copenhagen and Hamburg to Black Mountain, North Carolina -- What the conjecture is really all about -- Dead ends and a mysterious disease -- Voyage to higher dimensions -- Inquisition, West Coast style -- Watching things go "pop" -- The cigar surgeon --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007