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Professor
Donald G. Saari
University of California, Irvine
Mathematician; Economist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
Elected
2004
Distinguished Professor of Economics and Mathematics; Director, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences. Conducted analysis of dynamical systems of classical models of economic equilibrium, which showed nonconvergence, and of the Newtonian n-body systems, which showed collision orbits are improbable. Created geometric description to explain voting paradox.
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