Tip off: Solving the Curious Case of the Missing Fingerprints

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 13:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Fingerprints are so familiar that they are mostly taken for granted. Except, however, for people who don't have any at all. Although rare, such a deficiency poses a problem for immigration, the border patrol and the criminal justice system, which all rely on tools such as biometric scans and other devices that read these tiny, unique, markings found on the hands and fingertips of most people. [More]

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