Numb3rs has just wrapped up its third season with some big surprises and puzzling character questions (WARNING: This link contains spoilers!).

Numb3rs' season 3 DVD is tentatively set for a US release on September 18, 2007, and CBS has renewed the show for a 4th season, so now seems like a good time to go over the series.

There are a few things that I haven't covered in my previous Numb3rs posts.

Popular Science Magazine covers one thing I've puzzled over in the past few years, and that is just when prime-time TV went from bathing suits to lab coats.

Eric Weisstein, whose Mathworld site I've written about numerous times, and covers The Math(ematica)Behind Numb3rs. This is an especially good article, bothe because of the links that allow you to dig further into the math used in the show, and because Eric himself is part of the mathematical research team for the show!

Until the Season 3 DVD is released, I suggest the summer re-runs, and perhaps the upcoming August release of The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crime with Mathematics.