Springer
Die Verflixte Mathematik Der Demokratie
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- George G Szpiro
- Springer
- Hardcover
- 9783642128905
- 9.4 X 6.3 X 0.6 inches
- 1 pounds
- Mathematics > Game Theory
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Der Band erl�utert die mathematischen Hintergr�nde der demokratischen Wahlsysteme und f�hrt dabei zugleich in ihre Geschichte ein. Die Mehrheitswahl und die Zuteilung von Sitzen im Parlament etwa werfen mathematische Fragen auf, deren L�sung �berraschend schwierig ist. Wie viele Sitze bekommt zum Beispiel eine Partei, die 23,6 Prozent der Stimmen erhielt? Die Erkl�rung beginnt in der Antike, f�hrt �ber mittelalterliche Kirchenherren, Helden der Franz�sischen Revolution und amerikanischen Gr�ndungsv�ter bis zu heutigen Nobelpreistr�gern.
Author Bio
George G Szpiro was born in Vienna, Austria, grew up in Switzerland, and live & work in New York City, Jerusalem, Israel and Villeneuve, Switzerland.
George G. Szpiro is an award-winning author and journalist. A longtime correspondent for the Swiss daily?Neue Zürcher Zeitung, his many books include?Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present?(2010) and?Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation?(2011).
Books
Kepler’s Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve one of the Oldest Math Problems of the World; John Wiley, 2003.
The Secret Life of Numbers: 50 Easy Pieces on How Mathematicians Work and Think; Joseph Henry Press (The National Academy of Sciences), 2006.
Poincaré’s Conjecture: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles; Dutton, 2007.
A Mathematical Medley: Fifty easy Pieces on Mathematics; The American Mathematical Association (AMA), 2010
Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present; Princeton University Press, 2010.
Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation; Basic Books 2011
Education
- 1968 - 1972 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, MSc mathematics
- 1973 - 1975 Stanford University, MBA
- 1975 - 1984 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, Ph.D. mathematical economics
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