A indicate occurs as balance of the relationship between Don & Charlie & of the efforts it produce to fight crime, usually around Los Angeles. inside a few fronts, these are similar in execution to CSI.

Many mathematicians from either Caltech work as advisor for every episode.

Though a indicate doesn't actually present any math, methods for solving similar types of problems actually survive, e.g. Bayesian search theory.

Characters
Don Eppes, played by Rob Morrow Charlie Eppes, played by David Krumholtz Alan Eppes, played by Judd Hirsch David Sinclair, played by Alimi Ballard Amita Ramanujan, played by Navi Rawat Larry Fleinhardt, played by Peter MacNicol Megan Reeves, played by Diane Farr (first appearance around Year Two) Colby Granger, played by Dylan Bruno (first appearance around Year Two) Terry Flow of any stream, played by Sabrina Lloyd (Season One)

Don Eppes
Don Eppes is one of the two independent characters in the indicate. Don is an FBI Favorite Professional world health organization recruits his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes, to help him & a Bureau solve occasionally of their virtually all hard lawsuits. Don makes neat sacrifices inside his household life sequentially to devote himself to his career, which to him is additional of how else of life than the mere job. Sir thomas more crucial to him than his function is his personal, especially Charlie, possibly though he doesn't know his brother's way of shopping at the world.

Don gave higher his position when Favorite Professional within Charge of the Albuquerque FBI office to draw back to L.The. whenever his mother became complaint sustaining cancer. He doesn't read how else his brother can lock himself higher in the his pickup by having the even insolvable maths condition, P versus NP, for the three months prior to their mother died, never attend understand her. It's the point of contention between the children (First year - "Uncertainty Principle" & the brief mention within "Vector").

Don dated Terry Flow of any stream patch at a FBI Academy around 10 years ago (his special date was whilst he got pizzthe pie inside a launderette by using her) &, unbeknown to Charlie for a period, about married an additional professional known as Kim Hall world health organization is today by using the Secret Service inside L.The., however he is non presently (First year) romantically exposed sustaining anyone. A latter love interest found that a brothers got "one part exuberance, two parts obsession." A beautiful public prosecutor Nadine seems to become smitten sustaining him & shares his feel of duty. Although Don's devotion to his job means he doesn't stand great deal of a home life, he does enjoy the occasional game of baseball. He played Individual-a by having a Stockton Rangers between college & joining the FBI.

Charlie Eppes
Charlie Eppes is one of 2 independent characters in a indicate, & the central figure. He occurs as professor of applied mathematics at a Southern California technical university, CalSci. As a mathematician, he helps his brother Don to solve numerous of his perplexing FBI lawsuits & has consulted for the NSA for nearly 5 years, with attained a greatest security clearance. Based on data from Charlie's father, Alan Eppes, he may multiply Quadruplet-digit counts mentally at age Trey & at a age of Quadruplet needed favorite teachers. The mathematical genius, Charlie attended Princeton University at a age of Baker's dozen fallowing graduating from either highschool at a equivalent period when his older brother, Don Eppes, & published his foremost mathematical treatise at the age of Xiv. It has been implied, though non explicitly declared, that he as well exposed at Stanford University and MIT.

that he then employs to offer insight to the FBI around solving crimes, help Larry Fleinhardt around physical science, or even reveal aspects of man nature and severity when within gaming or baseball. Charlie is leery of population & oftentimes enthralled by owning objects. Such as his brother Don, he is obsessional once it comes to his operate, however is like naif after it comes to man behavior. A latter typically blocks using his the food & drug administration and, so, is the are causal agents for of lot distress for him at days. Quite in a other h&, his function blocks sustaining his relationships: when by using Amitthe on their 1st date, for a lot it may talk just about is maths; Fleinhardt says that these are a most common interest and it should non struggle to make sure your not the subject.

In "Prime Suspect," Charlie purchases the beautiful Craftsman personal front yard from either his father, world health organization continues to accept him. About 30 years old, Charlie wants to become responsible & choose care of his father. A episode "Uncertainty Principle" is important for the backstory it gives on the kinship, particularly Charlie's difficulty around treating sustaining his mother's demise from either cancer.

Charlie is quite prototypic mathematician. Dr. Eppes hwhen an acute focusing ability as he voraciously writes equations, often covering many chalkboards. He is pleasantly gifted around chess, as it takes two his father & brother to play against him & the distraction to potentially kill him. Yet, within "Manhunt" these are revealed that Charlie has difficulties within the game of Scrabble. He is apparently the bad speller (e.g., he misspells "anomaly"). Additionally, Prof Eppes doesn't have a driver's license, however has another learner's permit.

Alan Eppes
Alan Eppes is the gallant father of Charlie & Don Eppes; he is supprised that his sons come working together & that it have a hard feel of community service. Mr. Eppes is particularly hard of his immature boy, Charlie. Alan occurs when widowman & out city planner, however keeps occupy by receiving taking part around the private resides & careers of his sons too as volunteering for is the causal agent of he believes in. Prefer Don, he enjoys baseball. He has attempted to persuade Charlie to require higher golf game rather him, delighted by owning a noesis that he potty at least teach his brilliant boy something. His married woman's title is never mentioned in the indicate, though she wwhen referred to on the placed as Margaret. Recently he has get on his number one date since his married woman's dying.

David Sinclair
David Sinclair occurs as promising FBI recruit that Don Eppes has taken under his wing. David has worked sustaining Don for just about a year, appointive to his team per Adjunct Director. He has a few cognition of defusing explosive hardware, due to his number 1 posting overseas within Tel Aviv, Israel. He okay, sleep in Venice, California, but had antecedently lived in which it snowed heavy. His sister Linda was divorced however went back to her ex-ex, upsetting Sinclair. David presently (Year Two) has facial hair & is an officer by having his have trainee.

Amita Ramanujan
Amita Ramanujan occurs as beautiful previous mathematics doctoral candidate who experienced Charlie Eppes when her thesis adviser. She every now and again aids him by having his FBI function. Her interest inside astrophysics has led her to pursue a second doctorial degree upin completion of her thesis on combinatorics; she said a drive for this is that she likes CalSci, however actually implied that the cause is further of an infatuation using Charlie. Amita was to develop an ordered marriage inside her native united states of India, but she did non allow that, lot to Charlie's liking. (She described her would-manque fiancé, the banker from either Goa, as "a total ass.") Her title is an perceptible court to Indian mathematics genius Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Larry Fleinhardt
Larry Fleinhardt occurs as professor at CalSci & the friend and colleague of Charlie Eppes. The brilliant theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Dr. Fleinhardt researches string theory but also helps Charlie sustaining his operate. Nevertheless, Prof Fleinhardt wishes his brother Eppes would prove my point using academe like than consult sustaining a FBI. Dr. Fleinhardt has been teaching for Xx years, & Charlie has possibly attended his classes. He is quite awkward within social situations; his students keep around described him when "boring and intellectually inaccessible." Along by using Alan Eppes, Larry provides words of wisdom to Charlie, reminding him that mortal behavior is unpredictable. He possibly comforts Din just about his making love sustaining his perspective on quantum entanglement. black car that he cherishes has recently come into his possession.

Megan Reeves
Megan Reeves is an FBI professional & psychological profiler. Inside "Judgment Call" Charlie gives Megan an origami flower after describing a basic construct of reverse decision theory to her. She wants to ride inside Dr. Fleinhardt's fresh car, agreeing using him that these are rather graphics.

Colby Granger
Colby Granger is an FBI trainee world health organization did a tour of duty by using the Army's Criminal Investigation Section & Sinclair is his senior officer. He's quite a skilled linksman.

Terry Lake (Season 1)
Terry Flow of any stream (Year One) is the focussed FBI partner to Don Eppes. The forensic psychologist, she often acts when a profiler for the team & when somebody world health organization might periodically teach you Charlie to Don. Rather Don, she typically doesn't read Charlie's analysis of the situation until Charlie simplifies it at an intuitive & approximate level, however is other open to the mathematician's trick than her partner.

Terry Flow of any stream has been reassigned to Washington, as she wants to rekindle her relationship with her married man. Sabrina Lloyd, who played Terry, is non giving for the Second year & Terry wasn't in the previous Deuce episodes of the 1st year. Officially, CBS has only said that her contract got an stock to leave when the number 1 year & she chose to clean soh & noted that a newly character might replenish Terry Flow of any stream like than simply use at times a second actress play her.

Episode list
Season 1 (2005)
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" ! # || Title || Airdate || Overview |- | 101 || "Pilot" || January 23 || Charlie assists Din on the serial raper outbreak by calculating the "hot zone", an locality in which a raper is virtually all in all likelihood to survive. Don is flushed from either a pack when Charlie's formula fails to turn higher any leads. |- | 102 || "Uncertainty Principle" || January 28 || Charlie successfully predicts a instance & place of a bank robbery, however once a aforethought arrest goes bad, he retreats into the mathematics condition P = NP. |- | 103 || "Vector" || February 4 || A fatal strain of flu is spreading across Los Angeles. Don investigates whether a strain was freed deliberately, & Charlie attempts to calculate a origin & probably spread of the virus. |- | 104 || "Structural Corruption" || February 11 || An engineering student commits suicide, but Charlie suspects funky play. Don disagrees, however he agrees to help Charlie investigate whether the student was murdered because of his search into a building's structural integrity. |- | 105 || "Prime Suspect" || February 18 || A lassie is kidnapped, however her parents refuse to cooperate using Don's investigation. A girl's father occurs as mathematician, & a snatch can be related to his act on the Riemann hypothesis. |- | 106 || "Sabotage" || February 25 || Don is investigating a series of train accidents which are then recreations of former wrecks. the saboteur leaves a note composed completely of counts. |- | 107 || "Counterfeit Reality" || March 11 || the unknown series of robberies leads Don into a experience involving forge money, snatch & execution. Charlie utilizes mathematics to analyse fake banker's bill & track their spread. |- | 108 || "Identity Crisis" || April 1 || A fresh out break by owning distubing similarities to an old out break leads Don to wonder whether he put the right human within gaol. When Don strains to locate a connection between them suits, he asks Charlie to search mistakes or even flaws in the 1st out break. |- | 109 || "Sniper Zero" || April 15 || Don is investigating a series of sniper killings, & Charlie is shopping for an underlying pattern to the attacks. What appears to become bad information could't become eliminated from either a analysis, because it fits a exclusively pattern he might call for. |- | 110 || "Dirty Bomb" || April 22 || the truck carrying radioactive waste disappears, & Don fears that a grime bomb is placed dispatch within downtown Los Angeles. |- | 111 || "Sacrifice" || May 6 || A researcher is murdered within his at home, & Charlie must reconstruct information erased from either his computer when Don investigates conceivable suspects. A first misused information concerns baseball savings comparisons & Sabermetrics, which is an unlikely motive for execution. |- | 112 || "Noisy Edge" || April 29 || An unidentified flying object travels over Los Angeles and so disappears. Don suspects terrorist activity, & Charlie endeavors to locate out thomas more just about a object & its flight path by analyzing microwave radar & weather satellite information. |- | 113 || "Man Hunt" || May 13 || A prison bus crashes, leaving ii unsafe convicts to escape. Don is joined by his previous partner from either Fugitive Recovery when a Bureau launches an effort to recapture the two. |} Season 2 (2005)
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" ! # || Title || Airdate || Overview |- | 201 || "Judgment Call" || September 23|| A federal judge's married woman is shot & flushed in the few's his pickup. a judge has processed then numbers of convictions that Charlie utilizes a Bayesian purification to thin the suspect listing. |- | 202 || "Bettor or Worse" || September 30|| Don and his team come known as around after the woman attempting to rob the jewelry dealer around Beverly Hills is shot by the watchman. Charlie helps a FBI by using a keyless remote from either the woman's car to help identify her & contract with wallmart creator's kidnapped married woman & girl. |- | 203 || "Obsession" || October 7|| The FBI becomes included within the stalking of the popular singer when she is threatened by an interloper in her home & reveals the series of threatening letters she's received through the mail. Charlie determines a letters come from either ii different humans when analyzing a handwriting. While a lensman is encountered dead touching the singer's home, Don believes a lensman was murdered & his dying is somehow related the stalking pack. |- | 204 || "Calculated Risk" || October 14|| Don & Megan come known as to the slaying scene while the CFO of a right energy company - that was astir to testify against her fellow executives - is murdered at her house and her boy is the sole witness. Caring there can be hundreds to thousands of dissatisfied ex-employees, Don asks Charlie to narrow a listing. |- | 205 || "Assassin" || October 21|| Don and his team buy the suspicious code in the period of the raid which Charlie determines is section of the plot to assassinate the Colombian exile sleep in Los Angeles. |- | 206 || "Soft Target" || November 4|| Don and his team come summoned to make contact with a human world health organization freed possibly deadly flatulence in the Los Angeles subway. Additional investigation leads a two to an improbable suspect world health organization is trying to prove produce the statement all about the city's want of readiness. |- | 207 || "Convergence" || November 11|| When a total of violent personal invasions witharound an upscale front yard begins to escalate, Don & his agencies come known as in fallowing these come found a outdoor enthusiasts are existence tracked through the GPS in their cell phones. |- | 208 || "In Plain Sight" || November 18|| |- |}

Trivia
Din Eppes was natural on July 15, 1967, his address is 8111 Aquagate, Los Angeles, Cthe 91021, & he causes a silver Mitsubishi 4 Sedan with California plates & code 4Q49902. In his Chevy Suburban, which is equipped with lights & sirens, a license code is 6Q49932. In "Identity Crisis," Charlie is working within Caltech schoolroom Seventeen. The "Craftsman" residence utilized in the series is owned by David Raposa & Edward Trosper. The series's theme song during the number one year is an excerption from either Once In A Lifespan by Talking Heads. Texas Instruments is leading a maths education initiative according to a indicate & its number one year line from either a opening crawl — "We all use math everyday." Krumholtz & MacNicol worked together in the 1993 film Addams Family Values. MacNicol played one of the to a fault sunny summer camp directors, when Krumholtz was a camper world health organizatiin got a crush on Wednesday Addams.

Production details
International first broadcasts by order of date
Sweden: April 29, 2005 on TV4. New Zealand: July 20, 2005 on TV3. Australia: August 15, 2005 on Network Ten. Germany: September 05, 2005 on Pro 7. The Netherlands: September 17, 2005 on SBS6. England: October 5, 2005 on ITV3.