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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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December 26, 2007
As I made clear in the last blog, locating the receiver of a surveillance camera is a very iffy proposition, and whoever suggested the method that Charlie claims to use seems a bit confused or inarticulate about what principles it rests on.
All this serves as an intro to a comment from reader James J. who suggests a far more believable alternative which preserves the same plot line... continued »
December 17, 2007
Ben Blakely is being spied on by several surveillance cameras. A surveillance camera is a video camera that is usually camouflaged; it takes fairly low resolution images and is connected to a transmitter. The transmitter sends the video to a receiver, either by direct wire connection, or through the broadcast of radio waves... continued »
December 15, 2007
It is hard to know where to begin talking about last night's episode, "The Chinese Box." The title itself refers to an interesting philosophical dispute centered around whether computers, running "Artificial Intelligence" (AI) programs can "think" (more on this later). There is no mathematics involved here; in fact, the very lack of adequate definitions of terms such as artificial intelligence and think makes this almost anti-mathematics... continued »
December 2, 2007
I've discussed some of the issues in last Friday's repeat ("Burn Rate")... continued »