Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present

摘要

There are inherent problems and paradoxes when the choices of a number of individuals need to be combined to make one collective decision. With the recent referendum on voting reform such issues are topical today, but they actually go back to antiquity. Szpiro writes from a historical and mathematical perspective. He also looks at the principal characters and gives a short biography of each, putting their ideas into a social context.