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Math and democracy

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Speaker: Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Related Webpage: https://www.jordanellenberg.com/
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Fri, Jul 8 2022, 2:10PM

There is a lot of discussion about what makes a political system democratic, or representative, or fair. Are these math questions? I will argue that they are at least not not math questions.

See also arXiv:2006.10879.