Authors: Alan Taylor, Allison M. Pacelli
Publisher: Springer
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 512263

Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 364
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9

ISBN: 0387776435
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN: 9780387776439
ASIN: 0387776435

Publication Date: September 5, 2008
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Product Description

This book teaches humanities majors the accessibility and beauty of discrete and deductive mathematics. It assumes no prior knowledge of either college-level mathematics or political science, and could be offered at the freshman or sophomore level. The book devotes one chapter each to a model of escalation, game-theoretic models of international conflict, political power, and social choice. The book contains exercises throughout.

Review of the first edition: “This book is well written and has much math of interest. While it is pitched at a non-math audience there is material here that will be new and interesting to the readers...” Sigact News

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars

Very good read, with some fascinating insights April 12, 1998
8 out of 9 found this review helpful

Lucidly written exposition with stress on concepts rather than notation manipulation. Dollar auctions, Arrow's theorem, Power indices were especially interesting reading. Probably the best place for a layman to get the dope on Arrow's impossibility theorem. Does get a bit tedious in some spots with some numerical permutations, but on the whole, I recommend it highly.