| Date |
Reading |
Assignment |
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| Social Choice |
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| 8/22 |
No reading, first day of class |
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| 8/24 |
Top 5 Ways Plurality Voting Fails |
No Assignment |
| 8/26 |
Mathematics and Politics, Sections 1.1-1.4, pp 1-13 |
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| 8/29 |
Advocates of various voting systems: instant runoff, range voting, approval voting |
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| 8/31 |
Mathematics and Politics, Sections 1.7-1.9, pp 28-35 |
Problem Set 1 |
| 9/2 |
Ultrafilters and Social Choice |
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| 9/5 |
NO CLASS - LABOR DAY |
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Apportionment and The Electoral College
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| 9/7 |
What is the Electoral College?, National Popular Vote Interstate Compact |
Essay 1 |
| 9/9 |
Stuck at 435 Representatives? |
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| 9/12 |
The Case for Massively Expanding the US House of Representatives |
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| 9/14 |
Apportionment, Methods of Apportionment |
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| 9/16 |
No Reading |
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| 9/19 |
Mathematics and Politics, Sections 5.1-5.4, pp 152-159 |
Problem Set 2 |
| Gerrymandering | |
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| 9/21 |
Shape, Chapter 14, pp 340-362 |
Essay 2 |
| 9/23 |
Shape, Chapter 14, pp 362-385 |
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| 9/26 |
Geometry v Gerrymandering |
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| 9/28 |
Shape, Chapter 14, pp 386-410 |
Problem Set 3 |
| 9/30 |
Quantifying Gerrymandering in North Carolina |
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| 10/3 |
Amicus Brief of Mathematicians, Law Professors, and Students |
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| Power | | |
| 10/5 |
Mathematics and Politics, Sections 2.1-2.2, pp 49-52, Sections 3.1-3.3, pp 71-83 |
Essay 3 |
| 10/7 |
Mathematics and Politics, Sections 3.4-3.6, pp 83-98 |
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| 10/10 |
Mathematics and Politics, Sections 9.1-9.2, pp 264-271 |
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| 10/12 |
Mathematics and Politics, Section 9.3, pp 271-275 |
Problem Set 4 |
| 10/14 |
Mathematics and Politics, Sections 9.4-9.5, pp 275-285 |
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| Fair Division and Stable Marriage | | |
| 10/17 |
The Heart of Mathematics, Chapter 10.5, pp 827-837 |
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| 10/19 |
Rental Harmony: Sperner's Lemma in Fair Division, pp 1-7 |
Essay 4 |
| 10/21 |
No Reading (okay, read Dinosaur Comics number 1345) |
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| 10/24 |
NO CLASS - FALL BREAK |
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| 10/26 |
Rental Harmony: Sperner's Lemma in Fair Division, pp 7-14 |
Problem Set 5 |
| 10/28 |
The Stable Marriage Problem and School Choice (Introduction and The Stable Marriage Problem) |
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| 10/31 |
The Stable Marriage Problem and School Choice (Optimal Stable Matches) |
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| 11/2 |
The Stable Marriage Problem and School Choice (Revealing One's True Preferences and Summary) |
Essay 5 |
| Page Rank | | |
| 11/4 |
No Reading |
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| 11/7 |
Linear Algebra in a Nutshell |
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| 11/9 |
Directed Graphs - Transition Matrices |
No Assignment |
| 11/11 |
Page Rank Algorithms - The Mathematics of Google Search |
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| 11/14 |
How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News, Chapter 2, pp 17-40 |
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| 11/16 |
How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News, Chapter 6, pp 119-136 |
Problem Set 6 |
| 11/18 |
How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News, Chapter 6, pp 137-150 |
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| Models and Algorithms | | |
| 11/21 |
Weapons of Math Destruction, Chapter 1, pp 15-31 |
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| 11/23 |
NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING |
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| 11/25 |
NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING |
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| 11/28 |
Weapons of Math Destruction, Chapter 4, pp 68-83 |
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| 11/30 |
Weapons of Math Destruction, Chapter 5, pp 84-104 |
Essay 6 |
| 12/2 |
Weapons of Math Destruction, Chapter 6, pp 105-122 |
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| 12/5 |
Weapons of Math Destruction, Chapter 8, pp 141-160 |
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| 12/7 |
No Reading
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Essay 7 |