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.
April 26, 2008
Well, last night's show "End Game" hit a new low. Aside from the word "cylinder" in connection with the proposed Epps family silo, there was nothing I recognized as serious mathematics. In fact, there was nothing I recognized as serious period.
First of all, there's this OODA baloney: Observe-Orient-Decide-Act. This has absolutely nothing to do with mathematics and possibly little to do with the military in which it's supposedly some sort of guiding principle... continued »
April 20, 2008
Last Friday's show, "Graphic", was a repeat of a show which originally aired last November. At that time I referred (see this link. ) to a previous blog discussing fractals and fractal dimension in connection with forgeries of more classical art... continued »
April 8, 2008
Old wine in new casks: "Dirichlet Tesselations" are the same as Voronoi diagrams, a topic I blogged in December of 2005.
Interestingly, like so much of the math in recent episodes, this turns out to be largely irrelevant to the plot. The usual FBI gang simply stakes out the last site on the captured GPS device and finds a lead to the bombers... continued »
