Donald G. Saari
Autore di Chaotic Elections! A Mathematician Looks at Voting
Sull'Autore
Donald G. Saari is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Economics and Honorary Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California at Irvine
Opere di Donald G. Saari
Mathematics of Finance: An Intuitive Introduction (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) (2019) 4 copie
Celestial mechanics : dedicated to Donald Saari for his 60th birthday : proceedings of an international conference on… (2002) 4 copie
Hamiltonian dynamics and celestial mechanics : a Joint Summer Research Conference on Hamiltonian Dynamics and Celestial… (1996) 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1940-03
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Attività lavorative
- mathematician
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Lester R. Ford Award (1985)
Chauvenet Prize (1995)
Carl B. Allendoerfer Award (1999)
Utenti
Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 14
- Utenti
- 128
- Popolarità
- #157,245
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 29
- Lingue
- 1
This book is easily read by the general reader, but also contains a fair amount of math. Although probably not as rigorous as a textbook might be, there are 13 theorems (all citing a more rigorous book or journal article for more detail). Due to either lack of educational background or lack of sufficient motivation, I was unable to follow some of the denser mathematical sections. However, the book is well written, so it is usually possible to understand the general idea, even when the math is somewhat glossed over. The only section where this was a problem for me was when the author claimed that the Borda Count may be an exception to Arrow's Theorem, if certain conditions are slightly relaxed. This is interesting and significant feature of the Borda Count. I trust that it is true, but would need to spend a lot more time carefully not glossing over the mathematics in order to understand the effect of the modified conditions.
My only criticism of this book is the organization is sometimes hard to follow, and chapter titles don't help very much. Topics are mentioned early, a question may be posed, and then the reader is told that it will be considered in detail later. However, I still recommended the book to anyone interested in this subject.… (altro)