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23 May 2016

math comps proof

Dana Neidinger ’16 (Davidson, N.C.) paused during a comps work session to photograph this outline of a mathematical proof (or argument), which covers most of a table in the Center for Mathematics and Computing’s senior research room. Neidinger and her comps group—Margalo Mullaney ’16 (Edina, Minn.), John Eckert ’16 (North Judson, Ind.), and Jordan Cahn ’16 (Bethesda, Md.)—are using algebra to understand systems of voting: the rules that stipulate how votes are counted and collected. “This proof shows that two algebraic models of voting are equivalent,” says Neidinger.  

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