Numb3rs Scene: Everything is numbers, Math is everywhere

[star5258]

What episode is this?

[Wheezy831]

THIS has always been my favorite piece from the show. Ty for preserving it for me :)

[TakeThatOut]

THUMBS UP IF MR PHAM IS HEKTIK

[freexspirit1]

awwww charlie is so passionate



[777Skeptic]

The book of nature is written in mathematics.

[joyfulheartbeat]

We had a NUMB3RS poster in my math class with the same line. I'm pretty sure i spent most of that class just staring at Rob Morrow :)

[leetstyle]

Not a great example of how everything is numbers.... But everything is.

[teddyjo26]

does anyone know where to find the song in the background? I think it's called, "Falling" although I can't remember who's it by. It might be one of those stock songs that tv shows can use for free. I just love it though.

[kincaide3]

wooo!

got the first answer!

[AaronShaunBrennan]

Sorry but everything is NOT numbers! Everything can relate to numbers because God design is logical just like math so of course they relate but we are far more than just numbers! We are a living breathing entity with a soul that hasn't anything to do with math. to say we are numbers is too simplistic!

[fumblenuts64]

@AaronShaunBrennan Nah, we're just numbers.

[secret260]

@AaronShaunBrennan You base your argument on the existance of soul's who is to say that they exist, that could just be rubish. But what we really know to be true, that, can all relate to mathematics directly.

[inferneko]

I like it better from the movie "Pi" but this still good :3

[Michiganbaker65]

It is really sad that CBS cancelled this show and kept crap like the Medium!!

I think that having a show that people can actually learn something, even if it's just a little, is something that CBS should have kept. I can watch these shows over and over andover.

[AssHoleThunder]

WHAT ARE THE CHANCES THAT I WOULD SEE THIS VIDEO???

[allensugar]

@AssHoleThunder About the same as your name being assholethunder

[thebest852]

I like math its my favorite subject

[01DREAM10]

MATHS IS EVERY WHERE!!!! AAAARRRRGGGG!!!!!!! D:<

[Bladen12345]

The internet was started by mathematics.

[stianjean]

I am OK when it comes to math. I saw this scene a while ago, and its still in my brain.

Look around your house, everything is built upon math! :D And still, i don't particularly like math, but when I look at it this way, it all becomes a lot more interesting! :) And this scene made me think like that :)

[LordvGum]

Divide by Zero, Charlie....please? =3

[weedipikia]

@LordvGum Don't be fresh.

[quat56]

this Moron charlie has the brassy knack to make the perhaps most simple observations & concepts & other simple logical perceptions in this world appear & sound so complicated with heaps of Numbers & Maths ?WHAT A BLOODY LAME SHOW THIS IS!!

[ImJoeYeah]

As it turns out, the nautilus shell isn't actually a fibbonacci spiral. Just thought I'd like to point that out :/

[noergelstein]

The reason why the golden ratio (and thus the fibonacci sequence) can be found in nature so often, is because the number is the most irrational number of all irrational numbers. For that reason, it stabilizes non linear systems.

For example, if all the planets lined up

periodically, then the orbits could not stay stable for a long time. The best ratio in the orbit time of the planets is the golden ratio, because it causes the least periodic behavior, thus stabilizing the orbits.

[FluffyBunniesOnFire]

@noergelstein How do you measure how irrational a number is? What makes one irrational number more irrational than another?

[noergelstein]

@FluffyBunniesOnFire

An irrational number cannot be represented by dividing two natural numbers, but you can approximate them that way. For example, take pi= 3 + 1/(7+1/(15+1/(1+....

Now, the smaller integers you take for this algorithm, the slower it will converge by increasing the number of divisions. Now construct the slowest converging number 1+1/(1+1/(1+1/(1+1/(1+....

Since it is harder to approximate with rational numbers, you could call it more irrational, within this algorithm.

[tonyrueb]

i do find it amazing how many people don't realize how much math can explain. if it cant explain some thing, some one will find out how explain it. the education system i don't feel puts enough emphasis on how it is applied. now, i'm majoring in engineering with a minor in math. and i mean this when i say it, some of the most powerful formulas can be the most simple ones as well. E=mc^2 is a simple equation, and in 500 letters cant explain how much power that has. Google "fractals" that is math.

[weedipikia]

@tonyrueb I'm sure many people think math is arbitrary like the names of colors or units of measurement we use. They probably think humans invented it. Really math was not invented but discovered like electricity. We just learned how to harness it.

[tonyrueb]

@weedipikia as much as i love math i would have to disagree with you on the point that it is not invented but discovered. math was invented to explain natural events. or to manage trade. math is founded in the rules of logic which i would also say is man made with a firm foundation. however with the foundation created for math the rules are founded natural example... 1 + 1 = 2 therefor 2+ 2 = 4 becase (1+1) + (1+1) = 2+ 2 = 4 the fact that 1 + 1 = 2 and 2 + 1 = 3 you can create any number

[Denamic]

In math, 'approximately' isn't good enough.

[AnonNov]

In math, they use approximately quite often to be honest. They have it in many different proofs.

[tonyrueb]

in math depending on what you are trying to do approximately is just as good as knowing the real thing. who cares if your error is 10^-6 percent? well truth is some times it matters some time it does not. a large part of math is making better ways of approximating, in calculus look up newtons method, Taylor series, Simpson's Rule, there is also Euler's method, and Runge-Kutta in differential equations. how can you say its not good enough when there are branches dedicated to approximating?

[thespicycabbage]

everything in math is approximately

[stomachtalk]

@thespicycabbage you're thinking of physics

[runningwiththehorses]

math is the best...its so logical and useful

[Papierflieger]

I just love this sequence, it motivates me to work every time I see it.

Even if all the others don´t know it, dont know what I do.

I know the I am not only playing with numbers and pixels.

There is a lot more to it.

[TheLibraryBum]

'You guys are on your own.' Nice Don, leave them there with the Mad Mathmatictian. Jerk.

Funny video, I probably would've run for the hills after seeing the look on Charlie's face.

[kittyrose25]

i asked my 4th grade teacher that once!me and my friend were talking about how boring math is and about how we would never use it and she started telling use how we use math all the time! but i whis my math teacher had been like Charlie maybe i would be able to understand math now XD

[ShikoxXxShadow13]

can someone plz tell me what episode this is from?

[k4k4r0th]

S01E06 Sabotage

[bloodberry3380]

I total agree with him. Maths and numbers are not just numbers which you can play and calculate with them

[Mollione]

Charlie is sweet.

[plurbaby420]

has anyone even studied this.... these number actually pop up everywhere. check the bottom of a pinecone

[blueeyedvixxen]

♥♥♥such beautiful words from such a beautiful man *butterflies*♥♥♥

[taurusfroggy]

could someone please post the episode "Cover Me"?

[tonyrueb]

try the CBS site or TNT (you can get there via hulu)

[stargatelvr11]

0:17-0:19 Charlie's face! lol

[kagulya]

i wish my math teacher was like charlie, math wouldn't be as boring as it is now

[Diogofa]

Divina proporção.

=)

[iheartbernard1995]

oh crap she had to brimg up math... hey does any one get wat charlie aka is saying? me don't speak math.

[tonyrueb]

he is saying that math occurs in nature all over the place. he makes particular reference to the Fibonacci's sequence which for some reason we preserve as being pleasant to look at (as a side note marketing companies figured this out, many boxes such as cereal have have a length to with ratio like 2 adjacent terms in the Fibonacci sequence) that is called the golden ratio, which we find pleasant to look at too.

[CSIAddict]

same and I am just getting into it but it is indeed helping me appreciate and understand math

( it helps that I just finished a grade 12 data management couse so I understand some of the concepts)

thanks for posting

[msynman]

I don't know how accurate the plots are but either way the show has made me appriciate math a lot more.

[nashmee05]

hey anyone knows the name of the song that comes in the background

[nashmee05]

nice show

[GonerFromLove]

i'm 12 and it seriously takes some time to understand.....

[thaines]

Stick with it.

[HeshMetalhead]

thank you making a show following up on Da Vinci code, yessss fibbonacci sequences are every where and have been known before davinci code but still.... generaly timing of 2 productions?

[ThisCanadian]

this program disturbs me.

why? because there are far too many people who 'think' they understand statistics... & this show is dangerously close to 'magical thinking' related to statistical interpretations.

"... damned lies", indeed. I mean, most people don't even do sufficient analysis of the articles & news reports they *might* stumble over... much less understand how badly skewed most of it might be...

miseducation is the first means to controlling a population with propaganda.

[mattfan14]

True, however, if you'd looked into it, you would know that at the very scenes of this show, every time there's a tiny bit of math involved, there are highly educated mathematicians and statistics analysts (forgot the title of that job...). The show in it self doesn't lie about math, or say anything untrue in the math language. The way they explain it, may just seem a bit too simple, 'cause they skip all the calculating alot of the time.

[ThisCanadian]

yeah... okay...

sure. they mathomagically find 'patterns' in crimes that identify the perpetrators of crimes...

& if someone is scientifically naive & end up on a fucking jury they'll believe any bullshit because dude has glasses & a white coat thanks to the 'CSI Effect' & this daft show.

its irresponsible & dangerous.

[plasticmadness]

Jeez guys, it's just a TV show. Fiction, entertainment. If they actually did everything with such accuracy, and cared THAT much about the "science" they air, that would make them super-geniuses instead of screenwriters, and i'm sure they would not be working at some giant media network, but in some government top classified office instead, or something like that, just like the characters in this show.

[sysexit]

This Canadian is stupid. Step away from your computer before something mathomagical happens. Too late, dude.

[tonyrueb]

i agree if they showed charlie at a chalk board all the time viewers wont want to watch it, for a program to survive in the US there needs to be drama and action (us Americans have a short attention span)

[dvader999]

golden ratio... very nice vid

[jasperdj]

haha i remember this part...

[sketch99]

this is such a great show..

and this is a lovely scene :) ..

[sadiiii]

wow..I didnt see mathematics that way, really opened my eyes...great vid!!

[PrivateWarrior1]

@sadiiii Yes it is. Mathematics is God's language to us. Here is another idea for you, you may be familiar with infinity, but did you know that there exists an infinite number of infinities, and each one is larger than the other.