Numbers rule: the vexing mathematics of democracy, from Plato to the present

Concepts

Social SciencesMathematicsPolitical ScienceDemocratizationNumber TheoryPhilosophy Of MathematicsAuthoritarianismDemocracyMathematical PlatonismPhilosophy Of NumberPolitical IdeologyDemocratic IdeologyInterpretation Of Number-theoretic TextsNumber PlatonismPlato's Political PhilosophyPlato's Political ThoughtPlatonist Accounts Of MathematicsRadical DemocracyTheology Of Democracy

Abstract

PREFACE ix CHAPTER ONE: THE ANTI-DEMOCRAT 1 CHAPTER TWO: THE LETTER WRITER 22 CHAPTER THREE: THE MYSTIC 33 CHAPTER FOUR: THE CARDINAL 50 CHAPTER FIVE: THE OFFICER 60 CHAPTER SIX: THE MARQUIS 73 CHAPTER SEVEN: THE MATHEMATICIAN 89 CHAPTER EIGHT: THE OXFORD DON 100 CHAPTER NINE: THE FOUNDING FATHERS 119 CHAPTER TEN: THE IVY LEAGUERS 134 CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE PESSIMISTS 165 CHAPTER TWELVE: THE QUOTARIANS 187 CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE POSTMODERNS 202 BIBLIOGRAPHY 215 INDEX 219

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