How Math Explains the World.pdf

rank-order voting, 209–14, 219 head-to-head matchups, 211, 213 most first-place votes, 210, 212, 213 numerical total, 211, 21 ...

Skrenta, Rich, 126 smoke-filled rooms, voting in, see insincere voting social sciences, applications of mathematics to, 243–44 v ...

Tilden, Samuel, 228 Time, 143  topology, 35, 198, 199 tractable problems, 159, 162 tractrix, 112 transcendental numbers, 74 ...

water waves, 47, 139 Watt, James, 187 wave function, 136 wave-particle duality, 46–55, 139 double-slit experiment, 47–48 we ...

About the Author  James D. Stein is a professor of mathematics at California State University, Long Beach. A graduate of Yale U ...

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