NUMB3RS has opened the eyes of many people to the ways math and/or
science can be used to solve crimes. This is a list of all the math
and science concepts used in the series with links to on-line sources to find more
information or sometimes articles written by mathematicians and
scientists explaining the concepts used in episodes.
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Earth Liberation Movement |
Earth Liberation Movement -- This is probably based on the Earth
Liberation Front, that "uses direct action in the form of economic
sabotage to stop the exploitation and destruction of the natural
environment"
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Last Updated ( Monday, 30 October 2006 )
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 05 November 2006 )
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Economic Modeling -- a theoretical representation of trends in an economy.
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Eigenface -- a set of vectors used to determine facial recognition
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Last Updated ( Monday, 30 October 2006 )
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Electricity -- a basic term for the presence and flow of an electric charge
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Elevator Paradox -- first noted by George Gamow and Miritz Stern to explain why the first elevator car seems to be traveling in the opposite direction of where a user is trying to reach. They show a single elevator spends most of its time in the larger section of the
building, and thus is more likely to approach from that direction when
the prospective elevator user arrives.
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Entropy -- a measurement of disorder within a system
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 11 January 2009 )
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Equivalent Retaliation Protocol |
Equivalent Retaliation Protocol -- or "tit for tat" -- an aspect of game theory developed by Anton Rapoport in the 1980's. It's a strategy for cooperative behavior in which an individual, at each stage, plays the action last played by another against it.
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Euclid's Orchard -- If you have an easy to understand definition, please email me!
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 28 November 2006 )
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Eugenics -- a social theory of manipulating the human species to improve it over generations More information |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 30 October 2006 )
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Evolutionary Algorithm -- a search method inspired by the biological world that look for solutions on a population scale instead of on an individual scale.
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