An axiomatic approach to diversity
Combinatorics
2014-06-13 v2 Discrete Mathematics
Abstract
The topic of diversity is an interesting subject, both as a purely mathematical concept and also for its applications to important real-life situations. Unfortunately, although the meaning of diversity seems intuitively clear, no precise mathematical definition exists. In this paper, we adopt an axiomatic approach to the problem, and attempt to produce a satisfactory measure.
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@article{arxiv.1101.5305,
title = {An axiomatic approach to diversity},
author = {Chris Dowden},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.5305},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
12 pages. This is a revised presentation of the material in the earlier version of the manuscript