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What may surprise you is the extent to which mathematicians (and computer scientists) have systematically studied issues involving fairness... Achieving Fairness Joe Malkevitch York College (CUNY) Introduction The experience of being alive begins with the fact that no matter how hard one may try to put oneself in the positionRead More →
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Mathematics helps develop definitions to compare different means to make something better or more fair. But there are inherent limitations, expressed as mathematical impossibility theorems... Impossible? Joe Malkevitch York College (CUNY) Introduction When you got up from sleeping last night, what were the possibilities that you could achieve in theRead More →

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Inevitably, I think back to my favorite result in mathematics: when Diaconis used the representation theory of the symmetric group to show us that psychologists just don’t get along… What I Think About When I Think About Voting Sarah Wolff Denison University It’s November. Here in Ohio, that means cozyRead More →