Copson Lecture 10/12/2007
Monday 10th December 5.15 pm, Lecture theatre A, Physics Building, University of St Andrews
Dr John Haigh, University of Sussex
“How Likely is That?”
This lecture was established in memory of Edward Copson, Regius Professor of Mathematics in the University of St Andrews from 1950-1969, and aims to bring to St Andrews a distinguished mathematician with the reputation of being able to communicate mathematical ideas to a non-specialist audience.
Dr Haigh is an expert on probability who has written a popular book on the subject “Taking chances: winning with probability” and has given one of a series of popular lectures for the London Mathematical Society. Jointly with fellow sports lover Rob Eastaway he has also written “Beating the Odds; the hidden mathematics of sport”. He sums up his lecture entitled “How likely is that” as follows. “Answers to questions about probability are often surprising and may even seem paradoxical. But a logical approach shows why these answers arise”.
