Donald G. Saari
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Donald G. Saari (born March 1940 in Houghton, Michigan, USA) is the Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Economics at the University of California Irvine. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1962 from Michigan Technological University, his Master of Science and PhD in Mathematics from Purdue University in 1964 and 1967, respectively. From 1968 to 2000, he served as assistant, associate, and full professor of mathematics at Northwestern University. He holds the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Distinguished Chair at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.
His research interests include voting methods, the Borda count, and application of mathematics to the Social Sciences.
[edit] Books written by Donald Saari
- "Collisions, Rings, and Other Newtonian N-Body Problems", American Mathematical Society, Providence RI, 2005.
- "The Way it Was: Mathematics From the Early Years of the Bulletin", American Mathematical Society, 2003.
- "Chaotic Elections! A Mathematician Looks at Voting", American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2001.
- Decisions and Elections; Explaining the Unexpected, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- "Hamiltonian Dynamics and Celestial Mechanics", (with Z. Xia), Contemporary Mathematics, vol 198, American Mathematical Society, Providence, 1996.
- Basic Geometry of Voting, Springer-Verlag, 1995.
