Karen Saxe and the Importance of the Census - Episode 15 - Macalester Big Questions

Macalester Big Questions

English - November 05, 2019 20:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
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On this episode of Macalester Big Questions, Karen Saxe sits down with President Brian Rosenberg to discuss her work with the census in Minnesota, and the mathematics behind redistricting. Saxe is the DeWitt Wallace Professor Emerita in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, and now the Director of the Office of Government Relations at the American Mathematical Society.

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