Schneps Leila, Colmez Coralie Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom 9780465032921

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Автор: Schneps Leila, Colmez Coralie
Название: Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom
ISBN: 9780465032921
Издательство: Little Brown
Классификация:

История государства и права

Уголовное право и процессуальные нормы

Популяризация математики

ISBN-10: 0465032923
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 272
Вес: 0.61 кг.
Дата издания: 12.03.2013
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations, black & white tables
Размер: 165 x 236 x 25
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: How numbers get used and abused in the courtroom
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Поставляется из: Европейский союз
Описание: 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,as evidence. They tell the stories of Sally Clark, who was accused of murdering her children by a doctor with a faulty sense of calculation of nineteenth-century tycoon Hetty Green, whose dispute over her aunt`s will became a signal case in the forensic use of mathematics and of the case of Amanda Knox, in which a judge`s misunderstanding of probability led him to discount critical evidence,which might have kept her in jail. Offering a fresh angle on cases from the nineteenth-century Dreyfus affair to the murder trial of Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk, Schneps and Colmez show how the improper application of mathematical concepts can mean the difference between walking free and life in prison.A colourful narrative of mathematical abuse, Math on Trial blends courtroom drama, history, and math to show that legal expertise isn`t always enough to prove a person innocent.

Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom, Schneps Leila, Colmez Coralie