Hearing the Will of the People in the Vote: The Mathematics of Redistricting
The annual Bartlett Memorial Lecture gives the public a window into the nature of mathematics by illustrating the work of renowned mathematicians to general audiences. How does one identify and understand gerrymandering? If one party wins over 50% of the vote, is it fair that it wins less than 50% of the seats? What do we mean by fair? How can math help illuminate these questions? The story thus far has been an interaction between lawyers, mathematicians, computational scientists, and policy advocates. The legal discussion has been increasingly informed by the mathematical framework, and mathematicians have been pushed to better communicate and effectively persuade with math. The problem of understanding gerrymandering has also prompted the development of a number of new computational algorithms and new mathematical questions.
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