Avner Bar-Hen
9 articles published in Tangente
Math for everyoneN°217Apr 10, 2024Nash and penalty shootouts
When a penalty is taken in football, the player wants to put the ball in the net; the goalkeeper has to stop him. Can mathematics help maximize the chances of scoring—or of saving that fateful shot? The affirmative answer illustrates the work of John Nash.
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Math for everyoneN°216Feb 13, 2024Japanese multiplication
How can you multiply without a calculator—or even knowing your multiplication tables?
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Math for everyoneN°86May 16, 2023How many tanks?
During the Second World War, the Allies used statistics to estimate German tank production.
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History and CultureN°86May 16, 2023Statistics in vogue at the opera
Largely independently of scientific development, a craze for statistics swept through France from 1827 onward.
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Math for everyoneN°86May 16, 2023Life expectancy
Life expectancy is undoubtedly one of the most widely used statistical indicators. Yet how it is calculated sometimes remains a mystery.
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Math for everyoneN°86May 15, 2023Random sequences
Random numbers are used to obtain approximate numerical solutions to problems that may be too difficult to solve exactly (Monte Carlo methods are a typical example).
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Math for everyoneN°86May 15, 2023Extreme values
The human, economic and financial repercussions make it essential to guard against extreme risks—that is, events that are unlikely to occur but have a major impact.
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Math for everyoneN°86May 15, 2023GPS
By knowing the Sun's altitude above the horizon and the exact time, navigators were able to determine their longitude and latitude.
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Math for everyoneN°181Mar 18, 2018Health and Big Data
Big Data has many applications in medicine, from clinical practice and research to epidemiological surveillance
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