Math 190:
Game Theory and Democracy
Summer Term 2, July 9 - August 1, 2019
Physics 235, Monday through Friday, 2:00 - 4:05 p.m.
Professor
Hubert Bray
bray@math.duke.edu
189
Physics Building
(919)757-8428 (mobile)
Office
Hours: after class, upon request
TA: Sam Lester, samuel.lester@duke.edu
For Wednesday, July 10
Watch these videos:
1.01 Types of Ballots in Elections
1.02 Who Wins a Preferential Ballot Election
1.03 Plurality and Instant Runoff Voting
For Thursday, July 11
Watch these videos:
1.04 The Unit Interval Model
1.05 Instant Runoff Voting is NOT Monotone
1.06 The Margin of Victory Matrix
For Friday, July 12
Watch these videos:
1.07 The Borda Count
1.08 The Borda Count is NOT Clone Invariant
1.09 The Borda Count and Nuclear War
For Monday, July 15
Papers and presentations due.
For Tuesday, July 16
Watch these videos:
1.10 Instant Runoff Borda is Condorcet
1.11 Instant Runoff Borda and the Unit Interval Model
1.12 The Game Theory of Condorcet Methods
For Wednesday, July 17
Watch these videos:
1.13 Worst Defeat
1.14 The Schulze Method
1.15 Ranked Pairs
For Thursday, July 18
Watch these videos:
1.16 Comparison of Vote Counting Methods that use the Margin of Victory Matrix
1.17 What is Democracy?
For Friday, July 19
Watch these videos:
2.01 The Kelly Criterion: Triple or Nothing
2.02 The Kelly Criterion: Quadruple or Nothing
2.03 The Kelly Criterion - The 0-1-2-3 Game
2.04 The Gambler's Ruin
For Monday, July 22
Papers and presentations due.
For Monday, July 29
Papers and presentations due.