Name: The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
ISBN: 9781620402788

The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

"Aunque muchos han tratado de encontrar enseñanzas filosóficas, psicológicas o incluso literarias en Los Simpson, lo cierto es que si hay una disciplina por la que sus guionistas sientes devoción, esa es las matemáticas. Ya en su episodio piloto, Bart, el genio, aparece una sutil broma sobre ecuaciones diferenciales. Los conceptos más sencillos hasta complejas paradojas, la serie ha recorrido en sus más de veinte años en antena, todas las ramas de las matemáticas. Los Simpson y las matemáticas es un libro para amantes de la disciplina, para seguidores de la serie, y, muy especialmente, para aquellos que quieran adentrarse en la disciplina de una forma divertida y amena." -- publisher's or seller's website. "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 mathematical references in the show, and in its sister program, Futurama, that they could form the basis of an entire university course. Recounting memorable episodes from "Bart the Genius" to "Homer3," Singh brings alive intriguing and meaningful mathematical concepts--ranging from the mathematics of pi and the paradox of infinity to the origin of numbers and the most profound outstanding problems that haunt today's generation of mathematicians.

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wrboyceSep 2026

“The Code Book” and “The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets” are also great books by the same author.

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rurpDec 2021

This theorem and a whole bunch of other cool math easter eggs are described in The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh, which I highly recommend. Despite the name, it includes some stories from Futurama, which makes sense given how similar the writing teams were.

It's incredible how many sophisticated jokes the writers managed to work in! I really love how both shows were able to be funny without dumbing down the content.

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cookie_monstaDec 2019

You may be interested in Simon Singh's The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets which details the show's long tradition of hiring math geeks as writers and the plethora of math-based in-jokes that has resulted.

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InsanityDec 2018

They weren't written in 2018, but some I enjoyed:

* Hackers: Heroes of the computer revolution (Steven Levy)

* Masters of DOOM (David Kushner)

* The simpsons and their mathematical secrets (Simon Singh)

* Countdown to zero day (about stuxnet, by Kim Zetter)

* Sapiens: A brief history of human kind (Yuval Noah Harari)

* Coders at work (Some interviews, not all, but I enjoyed it. By Peter Seibel)

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couchandNov 2014

As an aficionado of both math and The Simpsons myself I quite liked the author's book "The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets". One thing to note before reading: it's targeted at an audience with a passing familiarity with The Simpsons, so an unfortunate percentage of it is a description of episodes you probably already know by heart. But it's a good read, anyway, so check it out at your local library.

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deepakkapoorJun 2014

Reading Simpsons and their mathematical secrets this week. The book is both entertaining and informative.

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