diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 5818de41b83..aaf7f16c185 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -325,6 +325,10 @@ jobs:
           ! git grep -E '"@npm_angular_bazel//:index.bzl"' 'tensorboard/**/BUILD'
       - run: |
           ! git grep -E 'mat-color|$mat-' 'tensorboard/**/*.scss'
+        # Make sure no one depends on  the numeric library directly. Please
+        # import the indirection in //tensorboard/webapp/third_party.
+      - run: |
+          ! git grep -E '@npm//numeric' 'tensorboard/*/BUILD' ':!tensorboard/webapp/third_party/**'
 
   lint-misc: # build, protos, etc.
     runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
diff --git a/tensorboard/plugins/projector/vz_projector/BUILD b/tensorboard/plugins/projector/vz_projector/BUILD
index 169f99e50a4..096724f29f2 100644
--- a/tensorboard/plugins/projector/vz_projector/BUILD
+++ b/tensorboard/plugins/projector/vz_projector/BUILD
@@ -60,10 +60,10 @@ tf_ts_library(
         "//tensorboard/components/polymer:register_style_dom_module",
         "//tensorboard/components/tf_wbr_string",
         "//tensorboard/webapp/third_party:d3",
+        "//tensorboard/webapp/third_party:numeric",
         "//tensorboard/webapp/third_party:tfjs",
         "@npm//@polymer/decorators",
         "@npm//@polymer/polymer",
-        "@npm//numeric",
         "@npm//three",
         "@npm//umap-js",
     ],
diff --git a/tensorboard/plugins/projector/vz_projector/data.ts b/tensorboard/plugins/projector/vz_projector/data.ts
index c20590aeed7..5a7d96139ca 100644
--- a/tensorboard/plugins/projector/vz_projector/data.ts
+++ b/tensorboard/plugins/projector/vz_projector/data.ts
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 limitations under the License.
 ==============================================================================*/
-import numeric from 'numeric';
 import {UMAP} from 'umap-js';
+import {numeric} from '../../../webapp/third_party/numeric';
 import {TSNE} from './bh_tsne';
 import {SpriteMetadata} from './data-provider';
 import * as knn from './knn';
diff --git a/tensorboard/webapp/third_party/BUILD b/tensorboard/webapp/third_party/BUILD
index d4a3ce1b7b6..4e2e76cecfa 100644
--- a/tensorboard/webapp/third_party/BUILD
+++ b/tensorboard/webapp/third_party/BUILD
@@ -31,3 +31,12 @@ tf_ts_library(
         "@npm//marked",
     ],
 )
+
+tf_ts_library(
+    name = "numeric",
+    srcs = ["numeric.ts"],
+    strict_checks = False,
+    deps = [
+        "@npm//numeric",
+    ],
+)
diff --git a/tensorboard/webapp/third_party/numeric.ts b/tensorboard/webapp/third_party/numeric.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..95f2c9efac3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tensorboard/webapp/third_party/numeric.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/* Copyright 2022 The TensorFlow Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+==============================================================================*/
+import numeric from 'numeric';
+
+// The numeric library requires that the symbol 'numeric' is available in the
+// global scope when its operations are executed by other modules. See, for
+// example, how the definition of some of its operations refer to the string
+// 'numeric' in the Function definition, unmodifiable by the
+// bundler/minification code:
+//
+// https://github.com/sloisel/numeric/blob/656fa1254be540f428710738ca9c1539625777f1/src/numeric.js#L696
+//
+// The esbuild bundler does not keep 'numeric' in global scope and instead
+// renames it as part of bundling/minification. We work around this by manually
+// adding it to global scope here.
+window['numeric'] = window['numeric'] ?? numeric;
+
+// Reexport the numeric library. All imports of numeric should be done through
+// this file to ensure 'numeric' is available in the global scope.
+export {numeric};