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This is a blog where a professor from Northeastern University's Math department posts mathematical comments on the television show "Numb3rs". To comment, write to bridger@neu.edu.
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April 29, 2007
The real mathematics in last Friday's show was not the phony game theory of "tit for tat" ("you agress if he agresses"), but was hidden in the use of fMRI: functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
Medical imaging techniques such as CAT scans (Computer-Assisted Tomography), PET scans (Positron Emission Tomography) and MRIs are possibly the most important applications of physics and mathematics in the past 50 years... continued »
April 21, 2007
Once again, last night's show was a repeat. Here are the relevant blogs:
Reflection seismology (11/19/06)
A seismologist raises some issues (11/21/06)
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April 8, 2007
Near the end of Friday's episode, scientist Alex Glaser says to Charlie: "I suggest you look for the answers by looking at the victims -- a paradigm shift." He is telling Charlie to completely re-evaluate his thinking... continued »