Math Encounters -- Math for Democracy: The Mathematics of Voting Redistricting

Since the earliest days of the Republic, lawmakers have drawn legislative districts to entrench their party's power — a practice known as gerrymandering, after Elbridge Gerry, the Massachusetts governor who signed a particularly partisan map into law in 1812. Math has made modern gerrymandering more effective than ever before, but now math is being used to fight gerrymandering as well. Join mathematician and educator Ben Blum-Smith and discover how recent advances in mathematics are being used to work for fairer elections.

Special introduction by Dan Zaharopol, Executive Director, The Art of Problem Solving Initiative & Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics.

Math Encounters is a public presentation series celebrating the spectacular world of mathematics, presented by the Simons Foundation and the National Museum of Mathematics.

[papa]

Being from North Carolina and being someone who is very interested in just this sort of thing (I am a computer/math person) then my take on this talk is that it should widely distributed not only in my state but around the entire country.

To say it is an excellent talk is an understatement.

[social-mathematics]

George Polya mentioned that :
"It is foolish to answer a question that you do not understand. It is sad to work for
an end that you do not desire".(How To Solve It, page 6).
This is because a false hypothesis does not guarantee a true conclusion.
So I suggest first of all to understand what Democracy is. The answer comes from History.
History of Ancient Greeks and their types of government will give the corrent definition
of Democracy and not only. This have to be the end.