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The Simpsons and their mathematical secrets

"Simon Singh, author of the bestsellers Fermat's Enigma, The Code Book, and The Big Bang, offers fascinating new insights into the celebrated television series The Simpsons: That the show drip-feeds morsels of number theory into the minds of its viewers--indeed, that there are so many math...

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Main Author: Singh, Simon (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2013.
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Simpsons (Television program) > Miscellanea.
Mathematics > Miscellanea.
Table of Contents:
  • chapter 0.
  • The truth about the Simpsons
  • chapter 1.
  • Bart the genius
  • chapter 2.
  • Are you [pi]-curious?
  • chapter 3.
  • Homer's last theorem
  • chapter 4.
  • The puzzle of mathematical humor
  • examination I. chapter 5.
  • Six degrees of separation
  • chapter 6.
  • Lisa Simpson, queen of stats and bats
  • chapter 7.
  • Galgebra and galgorithms
  • examination II. chapter 8.
  • A prime-time show
  • chapter 9.
  • To infintity and beyond
  • chapter 10.
  • The scarecrow theorem
  • examination III. chapter 11.
  • Freeze-frame mathematics
  • chapter 12.
  • Another slice of [pi]
  • chapter 13.
  • Homer³
  • examination IV. chapter 14.
  • The birth of Futurama
  • chapter 15.
  • 1,729 and a romantic incident
  • chapter 16.
  • A one-sided story
  • chapter 17.
  • The Futurama Theorem
  • examination V. E[pi]logue
  • appendix 1.
  • The sabermetrics approach in soccer
  • appendix 2.
  • Making sense of Euler's equation
  • appendix 3.
  • Dr. Keeler's recipe for the sum of squares
  • appendix 4.
  • Fractals and fractional dimensions
  • appendix 5.
  • Keeler's theorem.

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