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View Article  It all adds up
by Helen Herimbi

In Numb3rs, Krumholtz plays Charlie Eppes, a mathematician whose smarts meet the streets when he is recruited by his brother (who is an FBI agent) to help solve federal cases using maths.

One would expect a four-eyes, retainer-wearing, sloppy-looking kid to play this nerdy character, but Krumholtz has managed to pull it off with panache.

"I don't ...   more »
View Article  Just Like The CBS Drama "NUMB3ERS": Police Use Math to Crack The Case

Don't say Math isn't useful. Tonight police crack a case. The crime is solved by crunching numbers. More than 50 victims are getting their stolen property back tonight after Port St. Lucie Police bust teens they suspect are responsible for a rash of car break-ins.

Police say the arrests were made possible after crime analysts crunched numbers. The analysts forecast hot ...   more »

View Article  Chris Ferguson - Do The Math - an interview (19.06.2008)
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With three finals in four years, and now a first-place finish, Chris Ferguson is the 
undisputed king of the Heads-Up Championship.
IT’S NOT EASY TO GLAMORIZE MATHEMATICS. To an extent, Good Will Hunting pulled it off,
though the title character in that film didn’t exactly embrace his gift for math. The
television show Numb3rs gave it a ...   more »
View Article  CMU Student Develops Picture Location Technology

ink: CMU.edu

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― A Carnegie Mellon University graduate student and his professor are working on some breakthrough technology.

They say they are developing a computer program that would be able to identify the location in a photograph it has never been exposed to before.

The technology is still in its infancy, but the idea is to be able ...   more »
View Article  David Krumholtz Talks About Numb3rs
by Lisa Finnegan on June 12th, 2008
mage copyright Lisa Finnegan

David Krumholtz has played everything from a sarcastic elf to a mouth-foaming psychopath on a terrifying episode of ER. He has finally found a home on his first hit series playing a genius crime-solving mathematician on Numb3rs. Krumholtz sat down with b5media at the 2008 Monte-Carlo Television Festival.

Are ...   more »

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View Article  NUMB3RS Comes to ISPCON --- And Your Data Center

Possibly you have seen the TV drama NUMB3RS (CBS Friday) and met Charlie Eppes. He is that ex-child prodigy that riddles off obscure math theories and saves the day for the FBI and that guy from Northern Exposure.  There is always an algorithm in the mix, you know the stuff you and I write in the mist on the shower ...   more »

View Article  Math guy makes crime series add upDavid Krumholtz portrays a cool whiz on 'Numb3rs.'

By Rick Bentley / The Fresno Bee

LOS ANGELES -- It is a good thing David Krumholtz only plays a mathematician on television.

"I was terrible in math when I was in school. I loathed it," Krumholtz says during a break in filming of one of the final episodes of the CBS series "Numb3rs" for this season.

"I tried to ...   more »

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View Article  Star urges fossil fuel departure

By CHRIS HAMILTON, Staff Writer

WAILUKU — Quick, name a middle-aged mechanical engineer who wears a bow tie and can bring hundreds of adolescents screaming to their feet.

Impossible? Nope.

It happened Tuesday in the War Memorial Gymnasium when Bill Nye the Science Guy spoke to 7th-graders from schools across the island.

“Am I the only guy wearing a bow ...   more »

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View Article  Dropsum and the cult of maths
Okay, this post involves a friend of mine, in fact, my brother-in-law - and it involves a game he's written, but it's a great game so bear with me. Nick Harper is a creative director at Ubisoft Montreal, and he's just set up his own Flash game site, Mygamingwebsite, with one title currently online: Dropsum, a clever puzzler that ...   more »
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View Article  MENSA Names Top Ten Smartest TV Shows of All Time
Written by: Roxanna Bain

The Chairman of MENSA has chosen the television shows he feels have been the “smartest” over the years.

MENSA is a highly respected International organization for “people from every walk of life whose IQ is in the top 2 percent population.” Jim Werdell, Chairman of MENSA International, when asked by Fancast.com to choose the smartest shows, ...   more »