title: Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom
author:  Leila Schneps 
description: <b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><br />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 explained, readers will enjoy a satisfying sense of discovery. Schneps and Colmez write with lucidity and an infectious enthusiasm, making this an engaging and unique blend of true crime and mathematics.<br /><br /><b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br />Fill[ed] with wonderful accounts of frauds and forgeries involving the likes of Charles Ponzi, Hetty Green and Alfred Dreyfus.the authors' analysis of the recent Amanda Knox case [is] particularly chilling. [<i>Math on Trial</i> is] intrinsically fascinating in its depiction of the frailty of human judgments.<br /><br /><b>Steven Strogatz, Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University, and author of <i>The Joy of x</i></b><br />Taut and gripping, <i>Math on Trial</i> just might establish a new genre, in which true crime story meets the best of popular science. Utterly absorbing from start to finish.<br /><br />
zlib_text: MATH ON TRIAL
  
  MATH ON TRIAL
  How Numbers Get Used and Abused
  in the Courtroom
  Leila Schneps and
  Coralie Colmez
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