Read Introduction. The author had a interest in math since her childhood. She became a doctorate and started her career as professor and then made a jump to a finance firm. It was the 2007-08 global finance crisis that made her understand how math is being misused against us.

She terms the big data projects which collects huge amount of data, process, extracts information to decide on something as "Weapons of Math Destruction (WMD) and cites a failure case of school teacher evaluation program.