The Simpsons’ secret formula: it’s written by maths geeks
▻http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/sep/22/the-simpsons-secret-formula-maths-simon-singh
Without doubt, the most mathematically sophisticated television show in the history of primetime broadcasting is The Simpsons. This is not a figment of my deranged mind, which admittedly is obsessed with both The Simpsons and mathematics, but rather it is a concrete claim backed up in a series of remarkable episodes.
The Jumbo Vision screen from ’Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play’, showing a perfect number, a narcissistic number and a Mersenne prime number.
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