NUMB3RS


Series Two Archive
Episode 1: "Assassin"
The Escape Game
Topic: Game Theory

Code Crackers
Topic: Simple Codes

Experimenting With Paper Airplanes
Topic: Experimenting With Paper Airplanes

Episode 2: "Judgement Day"
Filtering Suspects
Topic: Conditional Probability Leading to Bayesian Filtering

How Tall is the Criminal?
Topic: Scatterplots

Episode 3: "Better or Worse"
Creating "Random" Numbers
Topic: Pseudo-Random Numbers

Shifting Cells
Topic: Finding Patterns Using Cellular Automata

Episode 4: "Obsession"
Telling Time With the Sun
Topic: Uses of Trigonometry

Guarding the Goods I
Topic: The Art Gallery Problem

Guarding the Goods II
Topic: Securing Art Galleries

Episode 5: "Calculated Risk"
How Reliable is the Test?
Topic: Conditional Probability Trees

A Mathematics Sampler
Topic: Conditional Probability: Sampling Without Replacement

Financial Futures
Topic: Compounding Interest

Episode 6: "Soft Target"
Is This Seat Taken?
Topic: The Math of Arranging Objects

Escape
Topic: Percolation Theory

Are You Sure?
Topic: Mathematical Prediction

Episode 7: "Convergence"
1+1=2
Topic: A Little Group Theory

The Dating Game
Topic: Algorithms for Calculating Dates

Air Hockey
Topic: Matrices: Meaning and Operations

Where is the Bullet?
Topic: Projectile Motion

Episode 8: "In Plain Sight"
Follow the Flock
Topic: Introduction to Flock Behavior

Now You See It, Now You Don't
Topic: Steganography

Error Correction
Topic: Matrices: Error Correction Codes

Episode 9: "Toxin"
Message of the Bottle
Topic: Code Breaking

How Hard Can It Be?
Topic: Entropy

The Koenigsberg Bridge Problem
Topic: Graph Theory

Slippery Paths
Topic: Steiner Paths and Trees

Episode 10: "Bones of Contention"
How to Get a Date
Topic: Exponential Decay

Location! Location! Location!
Topic: Voronoi Diagrams

Episode 11: "Scorched"
Making "Fireprints" 
topic: Modeling the Spread of Fire

The Power of Powers
Topic: Counting Techniques

Mapping Fireprints
Topic: 3-Dimensional Graphing

Episode 12: "The O.G."
Is it Really Rare?
Topic: Poisson Distribution

It's All Connected
Topic: Social Network Analysis

Episode 13: "Double Down"
Perfect Out-Shuffles
Topic: Card Shuffling

A Bit of Basic Blackjack
Topic: Probability Involving Sampling Without Replacement and Dependent Trials

How Much Can They Win?
Topic: Time Series Analysis

That's So Random
Topic: Randomization

Episode 14: "Harvest"
Markov Chain Links
Topic: Markov Chains

Getting In Focus
Topic: Ellipses

Waxing Elliptical
Topic: Ellipses

Meltdown
Topic: Direct Variation With the Square

Episode 15: "The Running Man"
An Irrational Approach to Music
Topic: Simple Continued Fractions

We're Number 1!
Topic: Benford's Law

The Eyes Have It
Topic: Probability

Episode 16: "Protest"
A Party of Six
Topic: Graph Theory and Ramsey Numbers

A Recursion Excursion
Topic: Sequences Defined Recursively

Episode 17: "Mind Games"
Right or Wrong
Topic: The Binomial Theorem

Walkabout
Topic: Random Walks & pi

Thumbs Up!
Topic: Using Simluations to Understand Variability

Episode 18: "All's Fair"
Sudoku Puzzles
Topic: Sudoku Puzzles

Logging Witnesses
Topic: Probability and Logistic Regression

Guess My Type or Lose
Topic: Game Theory With Unknown Types

Episode 19: "Guns and Roses"
Seeing in the Dark
Topic: Using Sound Waves to Measure Distance

Bat Sonar
Topic: Echolocation in Bats

Settling the Score
Topic: Multiple-Scale Scoring Systems

DNA Sequence Alignment
Topic: Biomathematics - DNA Sequence Alignment

Episode 20: "Rampage"
Circling Around
Topic: Venn Diagrams, Intersecting Circles and Intersecting Spheres

Tesseract
Topic: Tesseracts and Hypercubes

I...It...Itera...Iteration
Topic: Iterative Processes

Episode 21: "Backscatter"
What Are You Implying?
Topic: Explicit and Implicit Functions

Chains and Pyramids
Topic: Geometric Progressions and Exponential Growth

Creating Codes
Topic: Codes

The Graph Tells The Story
Topic: Interpreting Graphs

Episode 22: "Undercurrents"
Where's the Source?
Topic: Vector Fields

Numb3rs of the I Ching
Topic: Counting, Symbolism and Encoding

Narrowing the Search
Topic: Length of an N-Dimensional Vector

Riding the Waves
Topic: Vector Fields

Episode 23: "Hot Shot"
Sinks & Sources
Topic: Directed Graphs

A Stab in the Dark
Topic: Histograms, Relative Frequency and Probability

Parabolic Food Flight
Topic: Parabolas and Curve Fitting

Clearing All Obstacles
Topic: Parabolic Equations

 
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