Coralie Colmez

Maths on Trial.
Mark Solon interviews Coralie Colmez, author of Math on Trial. Coralie explores some of the criminal cases in which maths has been misused and how a better understanding of maths within the courts could improve justice.

Coralie Colmez : Maths on Trial.
Sally Clark, Malcolm Collins and John Puckett are just some of the people who have been accused of crimes - ranging from theft to murder - based on calculating the probability of their innocence. But in each of these cases, the maths was wrong.