Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream — It can be done, here’s the recipe!More information
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All the math
NUMB3RS has opened the eyes of many people to the ways math and 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 articles written by mathematicians and scientists explaining the concepts used in episodes.
Voronoi Diagrams
Voronoi Diagrams — (also called Dirichlet tessellations) defining a space into cells to determine distances of points within the space.More information
Radiocarbon Dating
Radiocarbon Dating — a dating method that uses naturally occuring carbon-14 to determine the age of an object.More information
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Kennewick Man
Kennewick Man — fossilized human remains found along the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. The find is controversial as five different tribes have tried claiming the remains as theirs for re-burial, but all lost in court battles.More information
Seven Bridges of Königsberg
Seven Bridges of Königsberg — A problem in graph theory proving that with an odd number of edges, a path that does not re-cross any edge is impossible.More information
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Steiner Tree
Steiner Tree — mathematical problem to solve for the shortest network connecting several verticesMore information
Information Theory
Information Theory — mathematical theory of data communication and storage founded in 1948 by Claude E. Shannon.More information
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Fibonacci Number
Fibonacci Number — A series of numbers where the next in the series is the sum of the two previous numbers in the sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 etc.More information