About the Book: The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
You may have watched hundreds of episodes of The Simpsons (and its sister show
Futurama) without ever realising that they contain enough maths to form an
entire university course. In The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, Simon
Singh explains how the brilliant writers, some of the mathematicians, have
smuggled in mathematical jokes throughout the cartoons twenty-five year history,
exploring everything from to Mersenne primes, from Eulers equation to the
unsolved riddle of P vs. NP, from perfect numbers to narcissistic numbers, and
much more. With wit, clarity and a true fans zeal, Singh analyses such memorable
episodes as Bart