Believing that tv drama progs are somwhat LOOSELY based on facts, and having watched the US tv series Numbers tv programme recently, I wondered whether numbers can REALLY help, or actually solve crimes, have created the right formula based on the evidence to hand?
2007-03-15 23:34:12 · 3 answers · asked by Hello 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
It can!
Maths is language. The way we interpret it determines our conclussions.
Apart from numbers I have also seen in Threat Matrix the use of math being applied.
2007-03-16 04:53:42 · answer #1 · answered by Elcie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that using math to determine from what angle a bullet made impact, for example, could be instrumental to solving a real case.
2007-03-15 23:49:30 · answer #2 · answered by bruinfan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes.
Here in the Netherlands there is a nurse accused from murder on elderly people.
She is accused because elderly people died unexpected when she was on duty.
She is accused based on statistics.
A mathematician has calculated the probility that a nurse was on duty and that someone died. The probability for the accused nurse where not higher than for not-accused nurses.
a reinvestigation is needed.
site of the mathematician :
http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~gill/lucia.html
2007-03-16 00:13:20 · answer #3 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋