Jordan Ellenberg, “How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking” (Penguin Press, 2014)
New Books in Mathematics
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The Paradox of Transitivity in Voting
There's a very interesting paradox associated with transitivity individual preference is transitive. This has an extreme influence on our ability to devise accurate and good voting systems something that has troubled philosophers for centuries. Condor say wanted to develop a political system that in some sense worked like geometry started from some simple series of axioms.
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