Tails You Win: The Science of Chance (2012)
• October 18th, 2012 • 1h 0min
Documentary
Overview
Professor David Spiegelhalter tries to pin down what chance truly is and how it works in the real world. With his unique storytelling method, he applies a blend of wit and wisdom, animation, graphics, and gleeful nerdery to the joys of chance and the mysteries of probability. It is a vital branch of mathematics that tells us what might happen in the future based on the events of the past.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Standard Deviants: The Dangerous World of Pre-Calculus, Part 2
Released on: 1996-01-01
Documentary, Comedy, Family
This edition includes topics such as exponential functions, common log or base 10, rules of exponent...
Clouds Are Not Spheres
Released on: 2010-01-01
Documentary
Until recently geometry was 'cold', incapable of describing the irregular shape of a cloud, the slop...
The Genius of George Boole
Released on: 2015-09-01
Documentary, History
Narrated by Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons, The Genius of George Boole assembles academics and ind...
The Story of 1
Released on: 2005-09-28
Documentary
A humor-inflected history of the of the number one, covering military applications in ancient Rome, ...
Magic Money: The Bitcoin Revolution
Released on: 2017-01-25
Documentary
What is Bitcoin? With the advent of Bitcoin, the world's first digital currency, for the first time ...
NOVA: The Great Math Mystery
Released on: 2015-04-15
Documentary, History, Mystery
NOVA leads viewers on a mathematical mystery tour -- a provocative exploration of math's astonishing...
M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity
Released on: 2018-04-12
Documentary, History
A portrait of the visionary Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972), according to his own words, taken...
Outside In
Released on: 1994-05-15
Animation, Documentary
The computer animation Outside In explains the amazing discovery, made by Steve Smale in 1957, that ...
The Joy of Logic
Released on: 2013-12-03
Documentary
A sharp, witty, mind-expanding and exuberant foray into the world of logic with Computer Scientist D...
The Standard Deviants: The Many-Sided World of Geometry, Part 1
Released on: 2002-06-18
Documentary, Family, Comedy
Every year, millions of high school and college students walk into their first geometry class thinki...
Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture
Released on: 2015-01-10
Documentary
In April 2013, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire submitted a paper to the Annals of Math...
The Joy of Data
Released on: 2016-07-20
Documentary
A witty and mind-expanding exploration of data, with mathematician Dr Hannah Fry. This high-tech rom...
The Standard Deviants: The Gravity-Packed World of Physics, Parts 1&2
Released on: 2000-09-26
Documentary, Comedy, Family
Physics is a system of models of nature according to which all phenomena are explained in terms of m...
The Standard Deviants: The Many-Sided World of Geometry, Part 2
Released on: 1999-12-19
Documentary, Family, Comedy
Geometry Part 2 goes into detail on perimeter, circumference and area for 2-dimensional and 3-dimens...
The Standard Deviants: The Dangerous World of Pre-Calculus, Part 1
Released on: 1996-01-01
Documentary, Family, Comedy
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO ACE PRE-CALCULUS IS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS: functions, polynomials, f(x),...
The Standard Deviants: The Adventurous World of College Algebra, Part 2
Released on: 2004-06-08
Documentary, Comedy, Family
This DVD dives into the advanced principles of Algebra. The Standard Deviants tour of the world of a...
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 1
Released on: 1997-01-20
Documentary, Comedy, Family
This edition of Trigonometry includes such topics as radians, the special angles, right triangles, t...
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 2
Released on: 1997-01-20
Documentary, Family, Comedy
Part 2 starts off with a quick review of graphing as well as sine, cosine and tangent. From there, t...
The Standard Deviants: The Adventurous World of College Algebra, Part 1
Released on: 1996-01-01
Documentary, Comedy, Family
Required study by high schools and colleges, algebra has been a notorious stumbling block for studen...
Defeating the Hackers
Released on: 2013-10-26
Documentary
Exploring the murky and fast-paced world of the hackers out to steal money and identities and wreak ...