Gerrymandering, sandwiches, and topology

DOI10.1090/NOTI1582MaRDI QIDQ4596064zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pablo Soberón

Publication date 8 December 2017

Published in Notices of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1090/noti1582

zbMATH Keywords

biased political mapsham sandwich theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Voting theory (91B12) History, political science (91F10)

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