The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

ISBN-13: 9781408842812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str.

Simon Singh

Opis

Everyone knows that 'The Simpsons' is probably the most successful show in television history. What you might not know is that it contains enough sophisticated mathematics to form a university course, and then some. In the first ever episode, baby Maggie is messing around with some building blocks, which she nonchalantly piles up into a stack that reads EMCSQU. She's cracked Einstein's famous formula, E=mc 2. You might not notice unless you're a bit nerdy, but it's a sign of things to come.

Recenzje

Singh blows the lid off a decades-long conspiracy to secretly educate cartoon viewers David X Cohen, writer for The Simpsons and Futurama

O autorze

Simon Singh received his PhD in particle physics from the University of Cambridge. A former BBC producer and BAFTA Award-winning documentary director, he is the author of the bestselling Fermat's Last Theorem. His bestseller The Code Book was the basis for the BBC series The Science of Secrecy and his third book, Big Bang, was also a bestseller. He lives in London.