3 papers
cs.CG2018
Computational geometry and the U.S. Supreme Court
Noah Giansiracusa, Cameron Ricciardi
We use the United States Supreme Court as an illuminative context in which to discuss three different spatial voting preference models: an instance of the widely used single-peaked…
cs.CY2018
Spatial analysis of U.S. Supreme Court 5-to-4 decisions
Noah Giansiracusa, Cameron Ricciardi
While the U.S. Supreme Court is commonly viewed as comprising a liberal bloc and a conservative bloc, with a possible swing vote or median justice between them, surprisingly many c…
math.HO2017
Geometry in the Courtroom
Noah Giansiracusa, Cameron Ricciardi
There has been a recent media blitz on a cohort of mathematicians valiantly working to fix America's democratic system by combatting gerrymandering with geometry. While statistics…