Lecture notes
September 8 (Introduction)
September 13 (Innumeracy and math anxiety)
September 15 (Barriers: race, gender, etc.)
September 17 (Logic: statements, NOT, AND, OR)
September 20 (Logic: implications and truth tables)
September 22 (Logic: propositional calculus and negations)
September 24 (Logic: quantifiers)
September 27 (Voting systems: introduction)
September 29 (Voting systems: basic examples)
October 1 (Voting systems: properties)
October 4 (Voting systems: properties, cont.)
October 6 (Voting systems: Condorcet paradox and Arrow's impossibility theorem)
October 8 (Strategic voting and intro to probability and power)
October 11 (Power: Shapley-Shubik Index)
October 13 (Power: Banzhaf Index)
October 15 (Power: Properties and applications)
October 20: Midterm exam
October 22 (Cumulative voting)
October 24: Fall break
October 26, October 28, and November 1 (Probability)
November 3 (Escalation: Introduction)
November 5 (Escalation: Pruning decision trees)
November 8 (Escalation: Limitations of pruning)
November 10 (Escalation: O'Neill's Theorem)
November 12 (Game theory: Introduction)
November 15 (Game theory: Nash equilibrium)
November 17 (Game theory: Political applications)
November 19 (Game theory: Probabilistic strategy)
November 22 (Game theory: Mixed strategies, in depth)
November 29 (Game theory: Examples of mixed strategies--on board)
December 1 (Theory of Moves: Introduction)
December 3 (Theory of Moves: Decision trees)
December 6 (Theory of Moves: Political applications)
December 8 (Proportional representation)