Friday math movie – NUMB3RS and Bayes’ Theorem

23 Nov 2007 · Posted in Math movies, Mathematics 

There are 3 related videos this week.

Here’s Charlie explaining the Monty Hall problem to his students. It has a good twist, of course. What you expect intuitively is not the best decision.

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Here is another explanation of the same thing from Ron Clarke (which has a bit of a Monty Python feel):

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Baye’s Theorem

Here is quite a good (if lengthy) explanation of Bayes’ Theorem. From the page’s intro:

… an excruciatingly gentle introduction.

There’s a bunch of Java applets on that page that let you play with the concepts and investigate the meaning.

Comments

3 Responses to “Friday math movie – NUMB3RS and Bayes’ Theorem”

  1. Darmok on November 27th, 2007 1:33 pm

    Cool videos; I love the Monty Hall problem!

    P.S. It should be “Bayes’ theorem”; it’s named after Thomas Bayes.

  2. zac on November 27th, 2007 9:46 pm

    Doh – thanks, Darmok. Yes, I knew it was Bayes apostrophe – but after years of typing ‘apostrophe s’, it kinda becomes a habit.

    I have corrected it in the post.

  3. maria on December 2nd, 2007 5:10 am

    Iam going to put a link to this information. I saw this Numb3ers episode last weeK and I enjoy. Thanks.

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