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Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom
Leila Schneps, Coralie Colmez
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| #690071 in Books | imusti | 2013-03-12 | 2013-03-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.63 x1.00 x6.50l,1.06 | File type: PDF | 272 pages | Basic Books AZ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Cool book|By mikaela|I thought it was interesting. Kind of like a coffee table book, not incredibly thought provoking but cool to pick up and read a section every now and then|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A good intro to the subject|By Joe C.|I wanted to find out about the subject. Now I have to study mor||Publishers Weekly|An entertaining tour of courtroom calculations gone wrong . The cases they describe are independently interesting, and the mathematical overlay makes them doubly so . As the problems are unraveled and the correct analyses ex
In the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by politicians or the media, but in the case of the law, your liberty—and your life—can depend on the right calculation.
In Math on Trial, mathematicians Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez describe ten trials spanning from the nineteenth century to today, in which mathematical arguments were used—and disastrously misused—a...
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