The math that shows a perfect democracy is impossible
- Date
- April 23 (Thu) 10:30 - 11:30, 2026 (JST)
- Speaker
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- Brian Andrew Mintz (Postdoctoral Researcher, Mathematical Social Science Team, Division of Applied Mathematical Science, RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS))
- Venue
- Seminar Room #359 (Main Venue)
- via Zoom
- Language
- English
- Host
- Yohsuke Murase
Groups need to make decisions, and there are a wide variety of ways this can be done, each maximizing different notions of fairness. Social Choice Theory provides a mathematical framework to investigate these possibilities rigorously. Infamous for its many impossibility results, this topic reveals some fundamental limits to democracy. Beyond this, we'll discuss potential resolutions to these problems, as well as their real world implications.
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