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"Bright Boy." Law & Order: Criminal Intent, 7 October 2002.

Mathematics figured into the plot of this television crime show. The short description is: "Double homicide has detectives poking around world of academic prodigies." The story is about the murder of a child services worker who may have been about to recommend against admitting an eight-year-old boy into a prestigious school. One of the problems the students at the school are given is to solve the Riemann Hypothesis. There are several scenes with zeta-function formulas.

--- Mike Breen

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