Marquis de Condorcet

The article mentions the Marquis de Condorcet who proposed a "Condorcet criterion" for voting systems, and AV doesn't always pick the Condorcet winner.

AV referendum: Voting about voting | Editorial 2010

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, includes list of works, at the History of Economic Thought website.

The Snowbank 2009

The Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794), who died after spending several months in hiding as a fugitive from the Terror during the French Revolution, was a skilled mathematician who possessed a more refined understanding of Newtonian physics than his friend and mentor Turgot.

Classical economics 2008

Marquis de Condorcet 1743-1794 was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist who devised the concept of a Condorcet method.

Archive 2005-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

Marquis de Condorcet 1743-1794 was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist who devised the concept of a Condorcet method.

Calvin, Campanella, Condillac, Condorcet Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

Borrowing a distinction drawn by the mod - erate Girondin, the Marquis de Condorcet, Babeuf argued that the Revolution had so far established only legal equality, but not “real” equality.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas SANFORD A. LAKOFF 1968

The Marquis de Condorcet was not only philosopher, savant, litterateur,

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

Jefferson's letter to the Marquis de Condorcet presented Banneker's attainments as evidence of the mental capacity of Negroes.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 Various

When you contemplate Marquis de Condorcet, in the dark days of the French

Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings Robert Graham 1861

Six years after, the illustrious geometer gave the same advice, and perhaps held out the same hopes, to the young Marquis de Condorcet.

Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Arago, Francois 1859