| Date |
Reading |
Assignment |
|
|
|
| Social
Choice |
|
|
| 1/9 |
No reading, first day of class |
|
| 1/11 |
Top
5 Ways Plurality Voting Fails |
No Assignment |
| 1/13 |
Mathematics
and Politics, Sections 1.1-1.4, pp 1-13 |
|
| 1/16 |
NO CLASS - MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY
|
|
| 1/18 |
Advocates of various voting systems: instant runoff, range voting, approval voting |
Problem Set 1 |
| 1/20 |
Mathematics
and Politics, Sections 1.7-1.9, pp 28-35 |
|
| 1/23 |
Ultrafilters
and Social Choice |
|
Yes-No Voting
|
|
|
| 1/25 |
Mathematics and Politics,
Sections 2.1-2.2, pp 49-52
|
Essay 1 |
| 1/27 |
Mathematics and Politics, Section 2.3, pp 53-56
|
|
| 1/30 |
Mathematics and Politics, Section 2.4, pp 56-59
|
|
| 2/1 |
Mathematics
and Politics, Sections 9.4-9.5, pp 275-285
|
Problem Set
2
|
| 2/3 |
Mathematics and Politics, Sections 2.5-2.6, pp 59-63 |
|
| 2/6 |
Mathematics and Politics, Section 8.4, pp 255-260
|
|
| Apportionment and The Electoral College |
|
|
| 2/8 |
What
is the Electoral College?, National
Popular Vote Interstate Compact
|
Essay 2 |
| 2/10 |
The
Case for Massively Expanding the US House of Representatives, Stuck
at 435 Representatives?
|
|
| 2/13 |
US Presidential Election of 1876
|
|
| 2/15 |
Apportionment,
Methods
of Apportionment
|
|
| 2/17 |
Mathematics and Politics,
Sections 5.1-5.4, pp 152-159
|
|
| Gerrymandering |
|
|
| 2/20 | Shape,
Chapter 14, pp 340-362 | Problem Set 3 |
| 2/22 |
Shape,
Chapter 14, pp 362-385 |
Essay 3 |
| 2/24 |
Geometry
v Gerrymandering |
|
| 2/27 |
Shape,
Chapter 14, pp 386-410 |
|
| 3/1 |
Quantifying
Gerrymandering in North Carolina |
Problem Set 4 |
| 3/3 |
Amicus
Brief of Mathematicians, Law Professors, and Students |
|
| Fair
Division and
Stable Marriage |
|
|
| 3/6 |
The
Heart of Mathematics, Chapter 10.5, pp 827-837 (bonus: Dinosaur
Comics number 1345) |
|
| 3/8 |
Rental
Harmony: Sperner's Lemma in Fair Division, pp 1-7 |
Essay 4 |
| 3/10 |
Rental
Harmony: Sperner's Lemma in Fair Division, pp 7-14 |
|
| 3/13 |
NO CLASS - SPRING BREAK |
|
| 3/15 |
NO CLASS - SPRING BREAK
|
|
| 3/17 |
NO CLASS - SPRING BREAK
|
|
| 3/20 |
The
Stable Marriage Problem and School Choice (Introduction and
The Stable Marriage Problem) |
|
| 3/22 |
The
Stable Marriage Problem and School Choice (Optimal Stable
Matches) |
Problem Set 5 |
| 3/24 |
The
Stable Marriage Problem and School Choice (Revealing One's
True Preferences and Summary) |
|
| Misinformation |
|
|
| 3/27 |
Linear Algebra in a Nutshell |
|
| 3/29 |
Directed Graphs - Transition Matrices |
Essay 5 |
| 3/31 |
Page Rank Algorithms - The Mathematics of Google Search |
|
| 4/3 |
The Mathematics of Misinformation, pp 1707-1709 |
|
| 4/5 |
The Mathematics of Misinformation, pp 1709-1712 |
Problem Set 6 |
| 4/7 |
The Mathematics of Misinformation, pp 1712-1715 |
|
| Models
and Algorithms |
|
|
| 4/10 | Weapons of Math
Destruction, Chapter 1, pp 15-31 |
|
| 4/12 |
Weapons of Math
Destruction, Chapter 3, pp 68-83 |
Essay 6 |
| 4/14 |
No Reading
|
|
| 4/17 |
No Reading
|
|
| 4/19 |
Weapons of Math
Destruction, Chapter 5, pp 84-104 |
No Assignment |
| 4/21 |
Weapons of Math
Destruction, Chapter 6, pp 105-122 |
|
| 4/24 |
Weapons of Math
Destruction, Chapter 8, pp 141-160 |
|
| 4/26 |
No Reading
|
Essay 7 |