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Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present by George G. Szpiro

PRINCETON: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2010, XI + 226 PP., US $26.95, ISBN 978-0-691-13994-4

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Potthoff, R.F. Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present by George G. Szpiro . Math Intelligencer 35, 76–79 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-013-9377-5

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