Miranda and I are fans of the CBS show Numb3rs -- I mean, how can we not watch a show about math professors?  "We All Use Math Every Day," as the show says.  There's even a Numb3rs Math Blog from the math department at Northeastern University, in case you want more in-depth analysis of the math. 

As if that wasn't enough to keep a couple of taxprofs addicted to the show, last week's episode introduced a new character, Dr. Mildred French, as the new chair of the math department.  Chaos ensues:  Charlie gets chewed out for spending too much time on his consulting and not enough time on his teaching and serious research; he groans about his assignment to the admissions committee; his girlfriend Amita gets rewarded (?) with an assignment to the curriculum committee, but she's also called out for hogging the campus supercomputer, wearing inappropriate attire, and for canoodling with Charlie (her former mentor) and not establishing her identity as a professor rather than the grad student she used to be.

The campus novel is well established genre, but I believe this is the first time a prime time television show has featured an overbearing chair, crappy committee assignments, and taking on too much consulting work as key plot elements.  Keep it up, CBS. 

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