Books by George G. Szpiro

The author is George G. Szpiro and the subtitle is Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation, A Story of Genius and Discovery .  Excerpt:

3. Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present , by George G. Szpiro.  A history of social choice theory, with much more detail (yet still readable) than one is used to receiving on this topic.  I liked this book very much, plus it has extensive coverage of Ramon Llull , who remains a very underrated thinker.  Among his numerous achievements, he understood a significant chunk of Borda and even Arrow in the thirteenth century.  The first chapter of the book is her...