The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS (32 page)
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Authors: Keith Devlin
Los Angeles Times
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Machine learning
Madrid train bombings (2004)
Magic Bullet
(Discovery Channel)
Mahoney, Suzanne M.
Management science
Mandell, Thomas
“Manhunt” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
Maryland State Police
Mathematical model, constructing
Mayfield, Brandon
McCue, Colleen
MD5 (“Message Digest algorithm 5”)
Mena, Jesus
Mezrich, Ben
Milgram, Stanley
Millenium Problems
“Mind Games” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
Minority Report
(movie)
Minutiae
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Mitchell, Byron
Mixed strategies
Mohammed, Khalid Sheik
“The Mole” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
“Money for Nothing” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
Money laundering
Moorman, Mary
Morgenstern, Oskar
Moussaoui, Zacarias
Moustakides, G. V.
Multivariate analysis
Muscarello, Tom
Music piracy
Â
Nairobi, Kenya, U.S. embassy bombing in
Nash, John
Nash equilibria
National Academy Press
National Institute of Justice
National Research Council (NRC)
National Security Agency (NSA)
Network theory/network analysis
Neural networks
crime data mining using
defined
facial recognition systems
technology of
telephone fraud and
training
“New Directions in Cryptography” (Diffie and Hellman)
New York Times, The,
9/11 Commission
9/11 terrorist attacks
“Nine Wives” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
No-fly list
Nodes
“Noisy Edge” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
North Carolina Highway Patrol
NRC I and NRC II
Nuclear screening of container shipments
NUMB3RS
(CBS TV series)
“All's Fair,”
“The Art of Reckoning,”
“Assassin,”
“Backscatter,”
“Better or Worse,”
“Blackout,”
“Bones of Contention,”
“Brutus,”
“Burn Rate,”
“Calculated Risk,”
“Contenders,”
“Convergence,”
“Counterfeit Reality,”
“Dark Matter,”
“Democracy,”
“Dirty Bomb,”
“Double Down,”
“End of Watch,”
“finders Keepers,”
“Guns and Roses,”
“Hardball,”
“Harvest,”
“Hot Shot,”
“Identity Crisis,”
“In Plain Sight,”
“The Janus List,”
“Judgment Call,”
“Killer Chat,”
“Longshot,”
“Manhunt,”
mathematical synopses of episodes
“Mind Games,”
“The Mole,”
“Money for Nothing,”
“Nine Wives,”
“Noisy Edge,”
“Obsession,”
“The O.G.,”
“One Hour,”
“Pandora's Box,”
pilot episode of
“Prime Suspect,”
“Protest,”
“Provenance,”
“Rampage,”
“The Running Man,”
“Sabotage,”
“Sacrifice,”
“Scorched,”
“Sniper Zero,”
“Soft Target,”
“Spree,”
“Structural Corruption,”
“Take Out,”
“Toxin,”
“Traffic,”
“Two Daughters,”
“Uncertainty Principle,”
“Under Pressure,”
“Undercurrents,”
“Vector,”
“Waste Not,”
Â
Oakland Police Department Racial Profiling Task Force
“Obsession” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
“The O.G.” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
Olwell, David H.
“One Hour” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
Online banking
Operations Research (OR)
“Optimal Spatial Deployment of Radiation Portal Monitors Can Improve Nuclear Detection at Overseas Ports” (Wein, Liu, Cao, and Flynn)
Organized crime
Â
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Page, E. S.
“Pandora's Box” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
Partida, Rodrigo
Passwords
Patriot Act
Patterson, Terry L.
Peirce, Benjamin
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
People v. Collins
(1968)
Phishing
Polynomials
Powell, Laurence
Predator computer program
Predicting future
Prime numbers
“Prime Suspect” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
Prior odds
Prisoner's dilemma
Probabilities
Prosecutor's fallacy
“Protest” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
“Provenance” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
Pseudoprimes
Psychological profiling
Public key cryptography
Pure strategies
Pythagorean metric
Â
Quadratic sieve method
Queueing theory
Â
Race riots
Racial bias
Radiation portal monitor (RPM)
Rahman, Sheik Abdul
“Rampage” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
RAND Corporation
Random graphs
Random match probability (RMP)
Rapoport, Anatol
Reid, Richard
Renyi, Alfred
Richmond Police Department, Virginia
Riemann's Hypothesis
Rigel computer program
Risk assessment (risk analysis, risk management)
Rivest, Ronal
Roberts, S. W.
Robinson, Hetty Howland
Robinson v. Mandell,
RODS (Realtime Outbreak and Disease Surveillance)
Rossmo, Kim
RSA-129
RSA Data Security, Inc.
RSA system
Rudin, Leonid
“The Running Man” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
Â
Sabermetrics
“Sabotage” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
“Sacrifice” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
Saudia Arabia, Khobar Towers bombing in (1996)
Scientific American,
“Scorched” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
Scott, Tony
Segmentation
Selective Service System
Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs)
September 11 terrorist attacks
Serial criminals, geographic profiling and
SHA-1 (“Secure Hash Algorithm 1”)
Shamir, Adi
Shewhart, Walter A.
Shiryayev, A. N.
Shuffle Master machines
Simpson, E. H.
Simpson's paradox
Site Profiler computer program
Six degrees of separation
Small world model
Smallpox
Smuggling
“Sniper Zero” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
Social network analysis (SNA)
Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
“Soft Target” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
Software agents
Software piracy
South Side Rapist case, Lafayette, Louisiana
Spatial statistics
Spock, Benjamin
“Spree” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
Stacey, Robert B.
Stanford University
Statistical Methods in Counterterrorism
(Wilson, Wilson, and Olwell)
Statistics
gender bias and
hypothesis testing
meaning of word
United States v. Gilbert,
Statistics for Lawyers
(finkelstein and Levin)
Strauss, Aaron
Strogatz, Steven
“Structural Corruption” (
NUM B3RS
CBS TV series)
Substitution cypher
Syndromic surveillance
Â
“Take Out” (
NUMB3RS
CBS TV series)
Telephone fraud
Terrorism
African embassy bombings
airline passenger screening systems and
early detection of bioterrorism
Khobar Towers bombing
network theory/network analysis and
nuclear screening of container shipments
