Baffled by Bayes? Horrified by the hydrogen bomb? Try a BBC2 maths series,
The Numbers Game, which began a couple of weeks ago. Showing on Tuesdays at 7.30
pm, the programme on 8 February explains the race to solve the mathematical
problems of triggering off a chain reaction. And then there’s a guide to
Bayesian statistics and the outline of that most complicated of problems,
turbulence.
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