Re: NUMB3RS, Grobner bases, and "Trust Metrics"
- From: Raphael Jolly <raphael.jolly@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:31:14 +0200
rjf wrote:
The 4th season opener for the TV show NUMB3RS includes a mention of
Grober Bases!
That makes for an interesting news, at last !
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.
What Groebner Bases can do for spies has to do with cryptanalysis, I think, with the so called algebraic attack:
http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/062
NUMB3RS also breaks the stereotype in that this scientist also has a
very competent girlfriend mathematician.
Yes, of course there are. We even get posts from them here from time to time.
He doesn't seem to have a very good barber though.
http://tv.ign.com/objects/958/958925.html
I am retrieving it from p2p right away.
Raphael
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