Volume
12
Issue
1-3
Abstract
What role might mathematicians have to play in the management of risk? The idea of turning a risk, a possibility of loss or injury, into a “calculated” risk, a quantified probability of loss or injury, is one that has obvious appeal not just to statisticians and mathematicians – but to large numbers of others who would like to know the probability of failure before pursuing some intended course of action. Conclusion: even when risks can be calculated with great precision, they can only be used to inform judgment, but not substitute for it. And it matters who is making the judgment.
First Page
19
Last Page
30
Recommended Citation
Adams, John
(2015)
"Risk: Mathematical and Otherwise,"
The Mathematics Enthusiast: Vol. 12
:
No.
1
, Article 6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54870/1551-3440.1331
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/tme/vol12/iss1/6
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.54870/1551-3440.1331
