Amita Ramanujan

Amita Ramanujan
Numb3rs character
Navi Rawat as Amita Ramanujan
First appearance	"Pilot"
Last appearance	"Cause and Effect"
Portrayed by	Navi Rawat
Information
Gender	Female
Occupation	Professor of Applied Mathematics (at California Institute of Science) FBI Consultant
Family	Alan Eppes (father-in-law) Margaret Mann-Eppes (mother-in-law; deceased) Don Eppes (brother-in-law)
Spouse(s)	Dr. Charles "Charlie" Eppes (teacher)
Children	none

Professor of Applied Mathematics
(at California Institute of Science)

Amita Ramanujan, Ph.D., is a fictional character from the CBS crime drama Numb3rs, played by Navi Rawat. Over the course of the series, she has become a professor at CalSci and has since become romantically involved with her former thesis advisor, Dr. Charlie Eppes (David Krumholtz). She was first introduced in "Pilot". She also works as an FBI consultant with Charlie and Larry.

Dr. Amita Ramanujan is a newly appointed (as of the third season) professor of Tamil origin at the California Institute of Science (CalSci). In the first season, she received a doctorate in computational mathematics with Charlie Eppes as her thesis adviser at CalSci, the same institution where she currently holds a faculty position. Because of this association with Charlie, she assists him with various mathematical problems offered through his connection to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and frequently helps him see cases in a new light. She is the best programmer Larry Fleinhardt and Charlie know and is an expert on asymptotic combinatorics. To her surprise, Amita won the 2006 Milton Prize for her dissertation on combinatorics, which Charlie, a previous recipient, presented to her. She decided to use the prize money to fund a trip to India with her grandmother in an attempt to become attuned with her heritage and help with the education costs of two Tamil girls she met through one of Don's cases. In season five, she puts her skills to use on a new artificial intelligence, but is nearly killed.