Numbers rule : the vexing mathematics of democracy, from Plato to the present /
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 Parad...
| Основен автор: | Szpiro, George, 1950- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c2010.
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Съдържание:
- The anti-democrat
- The letter writer
- The mystic
- The cardinal
- The officer
- The marquis
- The mathematician
- The Oxford don
- The founding fathers
- The ivy leaguers
- The pessimists
- The quotarians
- The postmoderns.