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Friday math movie - NUMB3RS and Bayes’ Theorem

Posted in Math movies, Mathematics on 23 Nov 2007.
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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.

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  1. Darmok said,

    November 27, 2007 at 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 said,

    November 27, 2007 at 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 said,

    December 2, 2007 at 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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