How a carefully designed consociational power-sharing arrangement was subverted by a young mathematical politician
(I've taken this from R.J. Crampton's excellent History of Bulgaria, page 21; some subsequent correspondence with Crampton; and Sava Grozdev's account as given in Paul Jainta's article, "Problem Corner: Contests from Bulgaria, I" in
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(From the EMS newsletter, it seems that there were 47 members in total, so even if the other 17 voted together, they still couldn't get any of their candidates in.)
Very interesting story.
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I wondered about Prague. The Ministry of Finance website didn't mention it, and you didn't seem sure about it when we corresponded a few years back, so I left it out. But I did also wonder about Bolhrad - didn't sound like a place where one might get a doctorate!
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