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Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom Books Bill Bryson decided to reacquaintIn the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by politicians or the media, but in the case of the law, your liberty and your life can depend on the right calculation. In Math on Trial, mathematicians Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez describe ten trials spanning from the nineteenth century to today, in which mathematical arguments were used and disastrously misused as evidence. They tell