A Mathematical Look at Politics

by Daniel Ullman, E Arthur Robinson Jr., E. Arthur Robinson Jr., et al.

Book Overview

What Ralph Nader's spoiler role in the 2000 presidential election tells us about the American political system. Why Montana went to court to switch the 1990 apportionment to Dean's method. How the US tried to use game theory to win the Cold War, and why it didn't work. When students realize that mathematical thinking can address these sorts of pressing concerns of the political world it naturally sparks their interest in the underlying mathematics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439819831
• ISBN13: 9781439819838
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"