Numb3rs

We all use math every day;
to predict weather, to tell time, to handle money.
Math is more than formulas or equations;
it’s logic, it’s rationality,
it’s using your mind to solve the biggest mysteries we know.

Numbers (stylized as NUMB3RS) is an American crime drama television series that ran on CBS from January 23, 2005, to March 12, 2010. The series follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes (Rob Morrow) and his brother Charlie Eppes (David Krumholtz), a college mathematics professor and prodigy, who helps Don solve crimes for the FBI. The show focuses equally on the relationships among Don Eppes, his brother Charlie Eppes, and their father, Alan Eppes (Judd Hirsch), and on the brothers’ efforts to fight crime, usually in Los Angeles. A typical episode begins with a crime, which is subsequently investigated by a team of FBI agents led by Don and mathematically modeled by Charlie, with the help of Larry Fleinhardt (Peter MacNicol) and Amita Ramanujan (Navi Rawat). The insights provided by Charlie’s mathematics were always in some way crucial to solving the crime.¹

References

¹ “Numb3rs (TV Series)”. 2021. Numb3rs Wiki. https://numb3rs.fandom.com/wiki/Numb3rs_(TV_series).

Additional Reading

“Mathfiction: NUMB3RS (Nick Falacci / Cheryl Heuton)”. 2021. kasmana.people.cofc.edu. http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumber=mf457.

“Numb3rs Activities”. 2011. Have Your Pi And Eat It Too. https://mathstrategies.wordpress.com/numb3rs-activities/.

“Numb3rs Episodes By Topic”. 2021. pi.math.cornell.edu. http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~numb3rs/lipa/Episodes/.

“Wolfram Research–The Math Behind NUMB3RS”. 2021. numb3rs.wolfram.com. http://numb3rs.wolfram.com/.