Kenneth May

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Kenneth O. May è un matematico nato nel 1915 e morto nel 1977. Completò il dottorato in matematica presso l'Università di California con la tesi "On The Mathematical Theory of Employment". Completati gli studi entrò presso la facoltà del College Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota, come consulente della "Cowles Commission for Research in Economics" ed iniziò delle ricerche sulla teoria della scelta sociale. Più avanti i suoi interessi si spostarono all'educazione matematica, alla storia della matematica e all'information retrieval. Tra le sue maggiori scoperte vi è il Teorema di May.

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La biografia del matematico può essere letta in: Charles V. Jones, Philip C. Enros e Henry S. Tropp in "Kenneth O. May, 1915-1977. His Early Life to 1946".

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May, Kenneth O., "Probabilities of Certain Election Results", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 53:9 (Sep 1947), 919
May, Kenneth O., Variation of the Probability of Unfair Election Results, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 54:3 (Mar 1948), 288
May, Kenneth O., Probabilities of Certain Election Results, American Mathematical Monthly 55:4 (Apr 1948), 203--209
May, Kenneth O., The Frequency of Election Victories Without Pluralities, American Philosophical Society Yearbook 1958, 342--344
May, Kenneth O., Review of Social Choice and Individual Values by Kenneth J. Arrow, Science and Society 16:2 (1952), 181
May, Kenneth O., A Set of Independent Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Simple Majority Decision, Econometrica 20:4 (1952), 680--684
May, Kenneth O., Note on the Complete Independence of Conditions for Simple Majority Decision, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 59:1 (Jan 1953), 70--71
May, Kenneth O., A Note on the Complete Independence of Conditions for Simple Majority Decision, Econometrica 21:1 (1953), 172--173
May, Kenneth O., The Intransitivity of Individual Preferences, Econometrica 21:3 (1953), 476
May, Kenneth O., Transitivity, utility, and aggregation in preference patterns, dittoed (Feb 1953)
May, Kenneth O., Intransitivity, utility, and the aggregation of preference patterns, Econometrica 22:1 (1954), 1-13
May, Kenneth O., Review of Individual Choice Behavior, a Theoretical Analysis by R. D. Luce, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 66:4 (July 1960), 259--260
May, Kenneth O., Review of "Stability in Voting by Michael Dummet and Robin Farquharson in Mathematical Reviews 24:6B (Dec 1962), 408 \#2495