NUMB3RS, Grobner bases, and "Trust Metrics"

The 4th season opener for the TV show NUMB3RS includes a mention of
Grober Bases!
For those of you unaware of this generally disappointing show, the
plots involve the solution of crimes by an FBI agent whose brother, a
mathematician at "Cal Sci" [Caltech], helps out. Generally the
connection between the mathematics and the solution is at best
dubious, but it does repeatedly emphasize the claim that mathematics
can be brought to bear on real-life problems.

NUMB3RS also breaks the stereotype in that this scientist also has a
very competent girlfriend mathematician.
He doesn't seem to have a very good barber though.

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