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Science and Society: Unit IV: Tomorrow's Inheritance: 3: Measuring the Future

BBC One
on BBC One London

Predictions about the future can never be absolutely precise, but even where fluctuating patterns of human behaviour are concerned, computers can help the mathematician in the assessment of probabilities.
Introduced by Charles Coulson, F.R.S., Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford.
For Schools

Repeated on Thursday at 12.0
(to 11.30)

Contributors

Presenter:
Charles Coulson
Film editor:
Michael Dunk
Producer:
F. R. Elwell
Source: Radio Times

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