Conned Again, Watson! Cautionary tales of logic, math, and probability,
by Colin Bruce, Perseus, £19.50, ISBN 0738203459
NEED a painless lesson in law? Just dip into a John Grisham thriller. And you
can hone your knowledge of history by curling up with a hefty novel by James
Michener. But can we mine fiction for the facts on maths?
Any writer wanting to pull off that trick faces a challenge: maths just
doesn’t form part of the fabric of everyday life in the way history and law do.
But that’s not to say that the discipline is irrelevant. As any mathematician…
