Coralie Colmez
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| Born | Paris, France |
| Occupation | Author, tutor |
| Language | English, French |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | Bachelor of Arts |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Subject | Mathematics |
Coralie Colmez is a French mathematician, tutor and author.
Coralie Colmez is the daughter of mathematicians Pierre Colmez and Leila Schneps.
After completing secondary education in Paris, Colmez moved to the United Kingdom and attended Gonville and Caius college of the University of Cambridge under a Cambridge European Trust scholarship, completing a first-class Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and winning the Ryan Prize in Higher Mathematics.
Colmez worked for one year as a research assistant on Carol Vorderman's task force, commissioned by the UK government to study the state of mathematics education in the United Kingdom, and assisted with the presentation of the findings to the Joint Mathematics Council. She then became a mathematics tutor with a private tutoring firm, and with The Access Project, an organization that "helps disadvantaged children gain entrance into top universities". She is now a co-director of unifrog, an organization that helps students choose universities, and teachers track their progress.
With her mother, mathematician Leila Schneps, Colmez has co-authored Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom. This book, targeted for a general audience, uses ten historical legal cases to show how mathematics, especially statistics, can affect the outcome of criminal proceedings, especially when incorrectly applied or interpreted. While not written as a textbook, some reviewers have found it suitable for students, as an introduction to the topic and to "get them thinking, talking and even arguing about the issues involved", with another agreeing that, "they have struck the right balance of providing enough mathematics for the specialist to check out the details, but not so much as to overwhelm the general reader", and another finding the book suitable "for parents trying to support teenagers in their studies of mathematics - or in fact, law". While most reviews are positive, there has been some criticism that the book over-simplifies the influence mathematics has in complex trial proceedings. One reviewer finds that, while the book's description of the weakness of the mathematics is valid, that it does not completely treat the role mathematics plays in complex modern legal proceedings, while another suggests the book attributes insufficient weight to the counterbalancing practice of lawyers attacking opposing evidence and experts with their own.
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