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My first encounter with the Shapley value came in the unlikely context of video game design... The Shapley Value, or How to Split a Bill in $n!$ Easy Steps Anil Venkatesh Adelphi University Introduction More often than not, a happy hour with my non-mathematician friends ends with the assumption thatRead More →

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Every ballot quietly asks a question, and depending on the voting method we use we choose to listen to or discard little bits of the answer... The Story Your Ballot Doesn’t Tell: The Mathematics of Single-Winner Elections Anna Haensch University of Wisconsin - Madison Introduction: Who’s the Spoiler? The greatRead More →
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Though the chart starts out in alphabetical order, there's a break in the pattern that offers a clue... Puzzling Like the Seventeenth Century Ursula Whitcher Mathematical Reviews (AMS) The following chart is taken from the second edition of a German-language arithmetic textbook by Anton Schultze. It was published in LiegnitzRead More →

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Every time some mathematical question is answered, it generates new mathematical issues to think about.... Does Mathematics Progress? Joe Malkevitch York College (CUNY) Introduction With the beginning of a New Year—2026 in one system of counting, though not all societies use the same calendar—many people take the opportunity to examineRead More →
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Could we possibly gain more insight by trading away even more information? Information, Insight, and the Problem With Parameters Anil Venkatesh Adelphi University Introduction I have two data sets for us to consider. Both consist of observations of a single variable. Data Set 1 holds the daily number of positiveRead More →