Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom

Author/Contributor(s):	Schneps, Leila
Publisher:	Basic Books
Date:	03/12/2013
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

In the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Mathematicians Schneps and Colmez tell the story of 10 trials, from the Dreyfus Affair to the Amanda Knox murder trial, in which mathematical arguments were used--and disastrously misused--as evidence.