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Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
As announced a few months ago, I have been writing a popularization
article about the mathematics of democraty for a web-based French
free journal called <i>Images des Mathématiques</i>.<br>
<br>
It may interest some of you (among those who can read French, I
mean;-)) to take a glimpse on this work. To this end, I have put a
copy on the article on my personal website:<br>
<a
href="http://www.normalesup.org/%7Erpeyre/perso/democratie/La-democratie-objet-d-etude.html">http://www.normalesup.org/~rpeyre/perso/democratie/La-democratie-objet-d-etude.html</a>.<br>
For the time being, this article is in its refereeing process, so,
if you have any comments to make, <i>whatever they may be</i>, do
not hesitate to send them to me: I would take them with much
interest!<br>
<br>
I mention that this article is intended to be accessible to
everyone, except for the parts labelled «piste bleue» (which may
require a little knowledge in mathematics), «piste rouge» (which
require roughly a basic high-school level), «piste noire» (which are
too hard for high school students, but should remain accessible to
young university students in mathematics) and «hors piste» (almost
only understandible by professional mathematicians).<br>
<br>
I also mention that this article is planned to be the first one of a
series of three (but the two later articles may take still much
time...), the second planned article being devoted to the Condorcet
criterion and the third one to some voting methods suggested by
mathematical theories (approval voting and voting by two-players
game Nash equilibria [following an idea by Myerson]).<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
Rémi Peyre<br>
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