About
This talk relates true stories of life-changing events in which the use (or abuse) of mathematics has played a critical role. You will meet innocent victims of miscarriages of justice and the unwitting victims of mathematical bugs.
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- Gresham College
- Speaker
- Dr Kit Yates
- Year
- 2021
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Mathematics
- Source
- Gresham College
- Licence
- Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
- Attribution
- Gresham College states: "We positively encourage the use of the Gresham College lecture transcripts, audio and video files for educational purposes. However, we do not allow use of Gresham College materials for commercial, personal or institutional gain."
- Who can watch
- Gresham College gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed
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