The Mathematical Murder of Innocence

The Mathematical Murder of Innocence
Michael Carter
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Paperback
h198 x 127mm - 200pg
28 Sep 2020 UK
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9781913551025
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This is a courtroom drama inspired by a true story where a mother having suffered two cot deaths was wrongly accused of murdering her babies. "What if I had been in the jury. . . ? "The book starts already in the courtroom with a young engineer, Fielding, creating legal precedence: as a juror, he is invited by the judge to cross-examine the expert witness, a professor who says that the chances of a first cot death were one in 8500, multiplied by one in 8500 for the second, so there is only a one in seventy-two million chance of the two deaths being accidental; "thus it has to be murder. " Fielding points out that over a ten-year period, there are already eight million births in the UK, which already dramatically increases the odds of such a rare event. And he has only just started to dismantle the professor' s arguments. . . The Mathematical Murder of Innocence is a riveting courtroom drama, with an interesting twist. It is also a layman' s introduction to probability and the use and misuse of mathematical evidence in a court of law.
Michael Carter grew up in Norwich, then studied Engineering at Cambridge and Ocean Engineering at UCL, before designing and installing offshore oil platforms - just like the story' s narrator. He later moved to France and, after an MBA at INSEAD, he spent the rest of his career in senior management positions in electrical multinationals (CEO of Socomec Group and Vice President at Legrand), before retiring in 2018 to go sailing, mountaineering and write thought-provoking books. He lives in Grasse on the French Riviera.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781913551025
Published: 28 Sep 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Book Guild Publishing
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 127mm
Pages: 200

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