numb3rs
it's been a long time since i last blogged. been busy at work, preparing for a big exercise. also, has been watching a series called numb3rs online. it's those csi type, crime series. but the highlight of the show is that one of the fbi agent's brother is a mathematician. and the math brother uses math to help the fbi brother solves crime.
the math in the show is real math and not some magical math that makes math look almighty and awesome. and coincidentally, today (18 aug) in the science section of straits times, they wrote an article about applying math to the real world.
the focus of the article is this guy called stanley osher, who coinvented the level set method for image processing. basically, the method is quite hot in the movie industry and more recently in the bioscience industry.
wat link is there between numb3rs and stanley osher? well, the latter also helped to solve a crime in LA. basically, there was a riot then in 1993 and lots of beatings. there was a video clip of a guy throwing a brick at a truck driver. the clip showed a speck on the arm of the guy. stanley osher with his methods enhanced the video image and the speck turned out to be a rose tattoo and this led to the eventual arrest of the brick-thrower.
yeah. we all use math everyday.
it's been a long time since i last blogged. been busy at work, preparing for a big exercise. also, has been watching a series called numb3rs online. it's those csi type, crime series. but the highlight of the show is that one of the fbi agent's brother is a mathematician. and the math brother uses math to help the fbi brother solves crime.
the math in the show is real math and not some magical math that makes math look almighty and awesome. and coincidentally, today (18 aug) in the science section of straits times, they wrote an article about applying math to the real world.
the focus of the article is this guy called stanley osher, who coinvented the level set method for image processing. basically, the method is quite hot in the movie industry and more recently in the bioscience industry.
wat link is there between numb3rs and stanley osher? well, the latter also helped to solve a crime in LA. basically, there was a riot then in 1993 and lots of beatings. there was a video clip of a guy throwing a brick at a truck driver. the clip showed a speck on the arm of the guy. stanley osher with his methods enhanced the video image and the speck turned out to be a rose tattoo and this led to the eventual arrest of the brick-thrower.
yeah. we all use math everyday.
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