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Oct. 05, 2007
Numb3rs
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| Want to catch a criminal? Join Ira Flatow on this hour of Science Friday for an hour of crime fighting. First--the numbers behind the television show "Numb3rs." We'll talk with two mathematicians about how the police use math to fight crime. |
Produced by Annette Heist, Senior Producer
Guests
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Gary Lorden
Coauthor, "The Numbers Behind Numb3rs" (Plume Books, 2007)
Professor, Mathematics
California Institute of Technology
Math Consultant, television show "Numb3rs"
Pasadena, California -
Keith Devlin
Coauthor, "The Numbers Behind Numb3rs" (Plume Books, 2007)
Executive Director, Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information
Consulting Professor, Mathematics
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California
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