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- Subject: Re: Bill Clinton and Complex Analysis : -)
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- From: gadberry@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Mike Gadberry)
- Date: 5 Nov 92 05:31:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov4.211359.14309@massey.ac.nz>, news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System) writes:
- |> In article <9067@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, gadberry@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Mike Gadberry) writes:
- |> >
- |> >
- |> > There is anecdotal evidence that Abraham Lincoln was profoundly influenced
- |> > by the beauty of Euclid's Elements, and the existence of the electoral college
- |> > indicates that some of the framers of the American Way (notably Alexander
- |> > Hamilton) had a sophisticated understanding of the mathematical subtlties of
- |> > voting systems far ahead of their times. (Disenfranchisement and fair voting
- |> > models have only been systematically studied using mathematical tools quite
- |> > recently.)
- |>
- |> According to Martin Gardner's mathematical games column,
- |> Scientific American, October 1974, the subtlties were realised in 1785
- |> by the Marquis de Condorcet.
- |> It could be that a lot more work has been done on this in recent years.
- Thanks for pointing me to Condorcet. I'll look him up. Vive la
- France! (I'll also dig up the SciAm article. See my reply to Igor Rivin
- for more info about where I think this thread on this heavily trafficked
- newsgroup could go.)
- -Mike gadberry@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu
- Neural Processes in Cognition- University of Pittsburgh
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