You may have watched hundreds of episodes of The Simpsons (and its sister show Futurama) without ever realizing that cleverly embedded in many plots are subtle references to mathematics, ranging from well-known equations to cutting-edge theorems and conjectures.
Singh lives in London..
His third book, Big Bang, was also a bestseller, and Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine, written with Edzard Ernst, gained widespread attention.
His bestseller The Code Book was the basis for the Channel 4 series The Science of Secrecy.
A former BBC producer, he directed the BAFTA Award-winning documentary Fermat\'s Last Theorem and wrote Fermat\'s Enigma, the bestselling book on the same subject. in particle physics from the University of Cambridge.
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About the Author: Simon Singh received his Ph.
With wit and clarity, displaying a true fan\'s zeal, and replete with images from the shows, photographs of the writers, and diagrams and proofs, The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets offers an entirely new insight into the most successful show in television history.
Cohen, Al Jean, Jeff Westbrook, and Mike Reiss-whose love of arcane mathematics becomes clear as they reveal the stories behind the episodes.
Along the way, Singh meets members of The Simpsons\' brilliant writing team-among them David X.
NP; from perfect numbers to narcissistic numbers, infinity to even bigger infinities, and much more.
While recounting memorable episodes such as "Bart the Genius" and "Homer3," Singh weaves in Mathematical stories that explore everything from p to Mersenne primes, Euler\'s equation to the unsolved riddle of P v.
That they exist, Simon Singh reveals, underscores the brilliance of the shows\' writers, many of whom have advanced degrees in mathematics in addition to Their unparalleled sense of humor.
You may have watched hundreds of episodes of The Simpsons (and its sister show Futurama) without ever realizing that cleverly embedded in many plots are subtle references to mathematics, ranging from well-known equations to cutting-edge theorems and conjectures
