Mathematics used: Combinatorics and conditional probability distribution – "squish-squash" with Fourier analysisĪ prison bus crashes, allowing two dangerous convicts to escape. Don suspects terrorist activity, and Charlie tries to find out more about the object and its flight path. Mathematics used: Sabermetrics and econometrics bathythermograph Van Eck phreakingĪn unidentified flying object travels over Los Angeles and then disappears. Mathematics used: Prisoner's dilemma and radioactive decay Caesium-137Ī researcher is murdered in his home, and Charlie must reconstruct data erased from his computer while Don investigates possible suspects.įinal appearance of: Sabrina Lloyd as Terry Lake Louis Slotin used his body to cover a plutonium explosion in 1940s he died 9 days later after his " walking ghost phase". When three suspects are caught but refuse to turn on each other, Charlie must try to convince one of them to give up the others and also the location of the waste. Mathematics used: Projectile motion, Tipping point, regression toward the mean and exponential growthĪ truck carrying radioactive waste disappears, and Don figures that a dirty bomb will be set off in downtown Los Angeles. What appears to be bad data can't be eliminated from the analysis, because it fits the only pattern he can find. Mathematics used: Poker, geometric progression – paper folding, pyramid scheme, fingerprint and Schrödinger's catĭon is investigating a series of sniper killings, and Charlie is searching for an underlying pattern to the attacks. While Don tries to find the connection between the two cases, he asks Charlie to look for mistakes or flaws in the first case. Mathematics used: Guilloché pattern and wavelet analysisĪ new case with disturbing similarities to an old case leads Don to question whether he put the right man in jail. Don is assisted by Secret Service agent Kim Hall while Charlie uses math to analyze fake bank notes and track their spread. Mathematics used: Kasiski examination, Cryptography, Fibonacci sequence, golden ratio and Beale ciphersĪ strange series of robberies leads Don into a case involving counterfeit money, kidnapping and murder. The saboteur leaves a note composed entirely of numbers. Mathematics used: Cryptography, prime numbers, Riemann hypothesis and Riemann zeta functionĭon is investigating a series of train accidents which are recreations of previous wrecks. The girl's father ( Neil Patrick Harris) is a innovative mathematician, and the kidnapping may be related to his work on the Riemann hypothesis. Mathematics used: Pendulum and Foucault pendulumĪ young girl is kidnapped, but her parents refuse to cooperate with Don's investigation. The episode concludes with Don Eppes saying that Occam's razor says "that the simplest answer is usually the right one." The Hyatt Regency walkway collapsed in 1981 as did the Hartford Civic Center in 1978. Don disagrees, but he agrees to help Charlie investigate whether the student was murdered because of his research into a building's structural integrity. Mathematics used: Patient Zero, Viral vector, Vector and SIR modelĪn engineering student commits suicide, but Charlie suspects foul play. Don investigates whether the strain was released deliberately, and Charlie tries to calculate the origin and likely spread of the virus. NP and Heisenberg's uncertainty principleĪ deadly strain of influenza is spreading through Los Angeles, killing many people. Mathematics used: Geographic profiling, probability theory, 11-dimensional supergravity theory and projectile motionĬharlie successfully predicts the time and place of a bank robbery using what he says are elements of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, but when the planned arrest goes bad, he retreats into the math problem P vs. Don is removed from the case after Charlie's formula fails to turn up any leads but later a comment from their father then leads Charlie to change the equation to calculate two points of origin, instead of one. Don and Charlie's father, Alan Eppes, provides emotional support for the pair, while the brilliant Professor Larry Fleinhardt and promising doctoral student Amita Ramanujan provide mathematical support and insights to Charlie.Ĭharlie assists Don on a serial rapist case by calculating a "hot zone", an area where the rapist is most likely to live. The rest of Don's FBI team consists of Terry Lake and David Sinclair. The first season sees the start of the working relationship between Don Eppes, an FBI agent, and his genius brother Charlie, an applied mathematician and professor at a local university. The first season of Numbers, an American television series, premiered on Januand finished on May 13, 2005.
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