Tupper’s Formula
The wonders of math never cease to amaze. Jeff Tupper published this beautiful inequality in 2001: To all those wondering, what’s so amazing about this: The formula when graphed can visually reproduce itself! Choose the following value for n: Now plot the set (x, y – n) for x : [0, 106], y : [n, [...]
Posted at 3:17 pm on February 10, 2009 | 1 comment | Filed Under: amazing, mathematics | Tagged: formula, self-referential, tupper, tupper's formula | read on
Statisticide III: Nurse Lucia
This is the second follow up in the Statisticide thread. I will discuss here the trial of nurse Lucia de Berk. At a children’s hospital in Netherlands in 2001, an unexpected infant death caused a review of past incidents. It was discovered that child nurse Lucia’s shift coincided with many of these incidents. Subsequently, these [...]
Posted at 7:58 pm on January 27, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: law, statistics | Tagged: lucia de berk, mathematics, nurse lucia, probability, statistics, trial | read on
