Gerrymandering Vs. Geometry: Math Takes On Partisan Districts

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🗓️ 29 June 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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If mathematician Moon Duchin has her way, gerrymandered congressional districts could soon be a thing of the past.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.6	Meet the press.
0:05.0	Meet the press.
0:08.8	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press Podcast.
0:12.0	The Supreme Court recently announced that it would hear a case
0:14.8	on partisan gerrymandering.
0:16.8	A problem that has been plaguing American politics since
0:19.4	his far back is 1788 before the Constitution had actually
0:23.4	even been ratified.
0:24.4	I guess today is moon dution.
0:26.7	An associate professor of geometry and surfaces
0:29.8	at Tufts University.
0:31.4	So why are we talking about it with a math professor
0:34.1	about a problem in politics and geography?
0:36.0	Well, she recently started thinking about her research
0:39.2	in geometry, which focuses on figuring out
0:41.9	the average distances between points and various shapes
0:45.6	and how that has a bearing on compactness, which
0:49.4	is, of course, the legislative definition
0:51.1	of how you make a fair district.
0:54.3	All right, moon dution.
0:56.0	Welcome to 1947.
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