Book review of: Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez, Math on trial. How numbers get used and abused in the courtroom

DOI10.1007/S00283-013-9421-5MaRDI QIDQ2249494zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pamela Gorkin

Publication date 2 July 2014

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-013-9421-5

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General applied mathematics (00A69) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to statistics (62-01) External book reviews (00A17) Popularization of mathematics (00A09) Education of combinatorics, graph theory, probability theory, and statistics (97Kxx)

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