Book review of: G. G. Szpiro, Numbers rule. The vexing mathematics of democracy, from Plato to the present

DOI10.1007/s00283-013-9377-5zbMath1277.00017OpenAlexW161873956MaRDI QIDQ384423

Richard F. Potthoff

Publication date: 27 November 2013

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-013-9377-5

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Voting theory (91B12) General applied mathematics (00A69) History of game theory, economics, and finance (91-03) Sociology (and profession) of mathematics (01A80) External book reviews (00A17) Applications of statistics (62Pxx) Popularization of mathematics (00A09)

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