The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS
Subtitle: Solving Crime with Mathematics
By: Keith Devlin, Gary Lorden.
Contributors: Lorden, Gary.
Publisher: Plume published by Penguin; Plume
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780452288577
Subjects: Criminal investigation; Mathematical statistics; Criminal investigation -- Data processing
Other titles: Numbers behind numbers
Table of contents: title: The hero is a mathematician?; title: Finding the hot zone : criminal geographic profiling; title: Fighting crime with statistics; title: Data mining : finding meaningful patterns in masses of information; title: When does the writing first appear on the wall? changepoint detection; title: Image enhancement and reconstruction; title: Predicting the future : Bayesian inference; title: DNA profiling; title: Secrets; title: making and breaking codes; title: How reliable is the evidence? doubts about fingerprints; title: Connecting the dots : the math of networks; title: The prisoner's dilemma, risk analysis, and counter-terrorism; title: Mathematics in the courtroom; title: Crime in the casino : using math to beat the system.