List of Numb3rs episodes (season 1)

Numb3rs Season 1

DVD box
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 13
Broadcast
Original channel CBS
Original run January 23, 2005 (2005-01-23) – May 13, 2005 (2005-05-13)
Home video release
DVD release date May 30, 2006 (2006-05-30)
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Season one of Numb3rs, an American television series, premiered on January 23, 2005 and finished on May 13, 2005. The first season sees the start of the working relationship between Don Eppes, an FBI agent, and his genius brother Charlie, an applied mathematician and professor at a local university. The rest of Don's FBI team consists of Terry Lake and David Sinclair. Don and Charlie's father, Alan Eppes, provides emotional support for the pair, while the brilliant Professor Larry Fleinhardt and promising doctoral student Amita Ramanujan provide mathematical support and insights to Charlie.

Episodes

See also: List of Numb3rs episodes
№ # Title Directed by Written by U.S. viewers
(million)		 Original air date Production
code
1 1 "Pilot" Davis Guggenheim & Mick Jackson Nicolas Falacci & Cheryl Heuton 24.92[1] January 23, 2005 (2005-01-23) 101

Charlie assists Don on a serial rapist case by calculating a "hot zone", an area where the rapist is most likely to live. Don is removed from the case after Charlie's formula fails to turn up any leads.

Mathematics used: Geographic profiling, probability theory, 11-dimensional supergravity theory and projectile motion 
2 2 "Uncertainty Principle" David Von Ancken Nicolas Falacci & Cheryl Heuton 15.46[2] January 28, 2005 (2005-01-28) 104

Charlie successfully predicts the time and place of a bank robbery using what he says are elements of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, but when the planned arrest goes bad, he retreats into the math problem P vs. NP.

Mathematics used: P vs. NP and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle 
3 3 "Vector" David Von Ancken Jeff Vlaming 11.55[3] February 4, 2005 (2005-02-04) 103

A deadly strain of influenza is spreading through Los Angeles. Don investigates whether the strain was released deliberately, and Charlie tries to calculate the origin and likely spread of the virus.

Mathematics used: Patient Zero, Viral vector, Vector and SIR model 
4 4 "Structural Corruption" Tim Matheson Liz Friedman 10.68[4] February 11, 2005 (2005-02-11) 105

An engineering student commits suicide, but Charlie suspects foul play. Don disagrees, but he agrees to help Charlie investigate whether the student was murdered because of his research into a building's structural integrity.

Mathematics used: Pendulum and Foucault pendulum 
5 5 "Prime Suspect" Lesli Linka Glatter Doris Egan 10.49[5] February 18, 2005 (2005-02-18) 106

A young girl is kidnapped, but her parents refuse to cooperate with Don's investigation. The girl's father is a mathematician, and the kidnapping may be related to his work on the Riemann hypothesis.

Mathematics used: Cryptography, prime numbers, Riemann hypothesis and Riemann zeta function 
6 6 "Sabotage" Lou Antonio Liz Friedman 11.46[6] February 25, 2005 (2005-02-25) 102

Don is investigating a series of train accidents which are recreations of previous wrecks. The saboteur leaves a note composed entirely of numbers.

Mathematics used: Kasiski examination, Cryptography, Fibonacci sequence, golden ratio and Beale ciphers 
7 7 "Counterfeit Reality" Alex Zakrzewski Andrew Dettman 10.55[7] March 11, 2005 (2005-03-11) 107

A strange series of robberies leads Don into a case involving counterfeit money, kidnapping and murder. Don is aided by Secret Service agent Kim Hall while Charlie uses math to analyze fake bank notes and track their spread.

Mathematics used: Guilloché pattern and wavelet analysis 
8 8 "Identity Crisis" Martha Mitchell Wendy West 9.99[8] April 1, 2005 (2005-04-01) 108

A new case with disturbing similarities to an old case leads Don to question whether he put the right man in jail. While Don tries to find the connection between the two cases, he asks Charlie to look for mistakes or flaws in the first case.

Mathematics used: Poker, geometric progression - paper folding, pyramid scheme, fingerprint and Schrödinger's cat 
9 9 "Sniper Zero" J. Miller Tobin Ken Sanzel 10.54[9] April 15, 2005 (2005-04-15) 109

Don is investigating a series of sniper killings, and Charlie is searching for an underlying pattern to the attacks. What appears to be bad data can't be eliminated from the analysis, because it fits the only pattern he can find. Features appearance by Lou Diamond Phillips as Ian Edgerton.

Mathematics used: Projectile motion, Tipping point, regression toward the mean and exponential growth 
10 10 "Dirty Bomb" Paris Barclay Andrew Dettman 11.50[10] April 22, 2005 (2005-04-22) 110

A truck carrying radioactive waste disappears, and Don fears that a dirty bomb will be set off in downtown Los Angeles.

Mathematics used: Prisoner's dilemma and radioactive decay 
11 11 "Sacrifice" Paul Holahan Ken Sanzel 10.80[11] April 29, 2005 (2005-04-29) 111

A researcher is murdered in his home, and Charlie must reconstruct data erased from his computer while Don investigates possible suspects.

Mathematics used: Sabermetrics and econometrics 
12 12 "Noisy Edge" J. Miller Tobin Nicolas Falacci & Cheryl Heuton 11.80[12] May 6, 2005 (2005-05-06) 112

An unidentified flying object travels over Los Angeles and then disappears. Don suspects terrorist activity, and Charlie tries to find out more about the object and its flight path.

Mathematics used: Combinatorics and conditional probability distribution - "squish-squash" with Fourier analysis 
13 13 "Man Hunt" Martha Mitchell Andrew Dettman 11.29[13] May 13, 2005 (2005-05-13) 113

A prison bus crashes, allowing two dangerous convicts to escape. Don is joined by his former partner from Fugitive Recovery as the Bureau launches an effort to recapture them.

Mathematics used: Bayesian inference, Markov chain, Chapman–Kolmogorov equation and Monty Hall problem 

References

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  13. ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. May 17, 2005. http://abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=051705_04. Retrieved February 10, 2010. 

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