Donald G. Saari (born March 1940 in Houghton, Michigan, USA) is the Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Economics at the University of California Irvine. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1962 from Michigan Technological University, his Master of Science and PhD in Mathematics from Purdue University in 1964 and 1967, respectively. From 1968 to 2000, he served as assistant, associate, and full professor of mathematics at Northwestern University. He holds the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Distinguished Chair at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Joke Road sign to Houghton Houghton, Michigan is the county seat of Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan and largest city in the Copper Country on the Keweenaw Peninsula. ... The University of California, Irvine is a public, coeducational university situated in suburban Irvine, California. ... Michigan Technological University is a public university with its main campus in Houghton, Michigan. ... Purdue University is a public land-grant university system within the state of Indiana. ... The Arch, the main entrance to Northwesterns Evanston campus Northwestern University is a private university which has its main campus in Evanston, Illinois, on a 240-acre (970,000 m²) campus along the shore of Lake Michigan. ... The University of Victoria (usually known as UVic) is located in Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (it is located northeast of Victoria and is split between the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich) . It is a medium-sized university, with approximately 18,000 students, as of 2004. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Splendour without diminishment) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Area 944,735 km² (5th)  - Land 925,186 km²  - Water 19,549 km² (2. ...

His research interests include voting methods, the Borda count, and application of mathematics to the Social Sciences. The Borda count is a voting system used for single-winner elections in which each voter rank-orders the candidates. ... The Social Sciences are a group of academic and research disciples that study the human aspects of the world, that requires the application of the scientific method. ...

Books written by Donald Saari

Collisions, Rings, and Other Newtonian N-Body Problems, American Mathematical Society, Providence RI, 2005.

The Way it Was: Mathematics From the Early Years of the Bulletin, American Mathematical Society, 2003.

Chaotic Elections! A Mathematician Looks at Voting, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2001.

Decisions and Elections; Explaining the Unexpected; Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Hamiltonian Dynamics and Celestial Mechanics, (with Z. Xia), Contemporary Mathematics, vol 198, American Mathematical Society, Providence, 1996.

Basic Geometry of Voting, Springer-Verlag, 1995