Sherlock Holmes
The intersection of mystery novels and mathematics

A mathematical mystery that turns common misconceptions about probability and statistics on their head!
What if the events of the labyrinth are due to ingenious probabilistic errors that defy common sense?

One day, the famous detectives Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are asked to solve a mysterious case.

“That’s right, I was as unlucky as that ominous number.
The temperature was low that night, so the water was covered with ice… … The body was never found, probably because it had been washed out to sea by the low tide.
“I’ll probably never find it.”

“The password consists of nine letters.
There are 26 letters in the alphabet.
So, if you pick any 9 of the 26 letters, the odds of creating a meaningful sentence are less than 1 in 500 quadrillion.
… … It can’t be a coincidence that there are so many passwords hidden in it!”

An investigation begins to uncover the truth behind the mysterious incident, and as the case is dug deeper, it is revealed that it is caught in a clever probabilistic error...