voting systems

Election special

A mathematical look at democracy.

Elections: Could they be fairer?

With a bit of maths, yes!

Elections: Three common methods

Are these methods fair?

Elections: Can they be fair?

Unfortunately the answer is no, not perfectly. Find out more here.

Maths in a minute: The d'Hondt method

How does the voting system for the European Parliament elections work?

No maths for Europe

How should the seats in the European Parliament be allocated?

Another way of voting

Should we let go of the "one person, one vote" principle?

Election perfection?

Why a perfect voting system is mathematically impossible.

Maths in a minute: Arrow's theorem

Is there a perfect voting system? In the 1950s the economist Kenneth Arrow asked himself this question and found that the answer is no, at least in the setting he imagined.

Editorial

Election issues

Maths in a minute

Want facts and want them fast? Our Maths in a minute series explores key mathematical concepts in just a few words.

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Getting a different picture of our planet.
Maths in a minute: N-bonacci sequences

You may have heard about the Fibonacci sequence, but have you heard of N-bonacci sequences?
What is constructor theory?

A new way of looking at the physical world promises to shed light on some of the problems physics as we know it can't deal with.
The growth rate of COVID-19

We all now know about R, but sometimes it can be good to consider another number: the growth rate of an epidemic.
The agent perspective

How do we learn and understand the world? What separates us from machines? Yoshua Bengio believes it all comes down to our agency.

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