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The English mathematicians. The interest in elections of Todhunter and Crofton was purely incidental to their work in the theory of probability. Isaac Todhunter* (1820–84, Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge), in his magistral work A History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability (1865), mentioned Borda’s conclusions in regard to elections and examined the views of Condorcet and Laplace falling within the calculus of probabilities. As an aid to understanding Condorcet’s book, Todhunter is indispensable, though he himself failed to understand its theory of elections. M. W. Crofton (1826–1915, Fellow in the Royal University of Ireland) gave an ingenious proof of Laplace’s rule for allocating marks.*
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Black, D. (1987). E. J. Nanson and Francis Galton. In: The Theory of Committees and Elections. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4225-7_19
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