.Some students love to ask questions like, "How will this help me in real life?" I've decided to start putting up articles that answer that exact question (and if they ask the question, they might get to read it and write a paragraph summary) Here's the first one! Mathematician's Work Helps Change How People Vote As U.S. courts debate gerrymandering—the process of carving up electoral districts to disproportionately benefit one political party—Wes Pegden's work is helping to shape redistricting maps more fairly. Pegden, an associate professor of mathematical sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed mathematical theorems that can be used to establish rigorously that districtings are gerrymandered.
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